# leeway

> physics term; 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

**Wikidata**: [Q308462](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308462)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeway)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/leeway-q308462-2


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
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