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Glide

See Glide Effortless and Glide PhotoShare.

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glide

1. 

a. any of various dances featuring gliding steps

b. a step in such a dance

2. a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a gentle descent without engine power

3. the act or process of gliding

4. Music

a. a long portion of tubing slipped in and out of a trombone to increase its length for the production of lower harmonic series

b. a portamento or slur

5. Crystallog another name for slip

6. Cricket another word for glance (sense 1)

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glide [glīd]

(aerospace engineering)

Descent of an aircraft at a normal angle of attack, with little or no thrust.

(crystallography)

slip