STAGGER

Stagger

In aviation, stagger is the horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.

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stagger

Noun

  1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
  2. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
  3. bewilderment; perplexity.
  4. In motorsport, the difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.

Verb

  1. sway unsteadily, reel, or totter
    1. In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
      She began to stagger across the room.
      1. To cause to reel or totter.
      The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
      1. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
  1. doubt, waver, be shocked
  1. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
    1. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
  1. Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
  1. To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
  2. To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
    We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
  3. To schedule in intervals.
    We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.


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