Leeway

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Leeway is the amount of drift motion to leeward of an object floating in the water caused by the component of the wind vector that is perpendicular to the object’s forward motion.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Leeway”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Clipper, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.