Usually means: Time or distance between vehicles.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. headway: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. headway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headway: Vocabulary.com
  6. Headway, headway: Wordnik
  7. headway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. headway: Wiktionary
  9. headway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. headway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. headway: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Headway, headway: Dictionary.com
  13. headway: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. headway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Headway (band), Headway (disambiguation), Headway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Headway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. headway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. headway: Rhymezone
  19. headway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. headway: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. headway: Free Dictionary
  22. headway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. headway: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headway: Legal dictionary

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  1. headway: Encyclopedia

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  1. headway: Idioms

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  1. headway: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. headway: Chapters in the Sky
  2. HEADWAY: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Headway: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (headway)

noun:  Movement ahead or forward.
noun:  (nautical) Forward motion, or its rate.
noun:  (countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.
noun:  (uncountable, figuratively) Progress toward a goal.
noun:  (countable) The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
noun:  (mining) A crossheading.

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