STAGGER
Stagger
In aviation, stagger is the horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Stagger (aviation)
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stagger
Noun
- 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.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
- bewilderment; perplexity.
- 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
- sway unsteadily, reel, or totter
- 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.
- To cause to reel or totter.
- The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- She began to stagger across the room.
- 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.
- doubt, waver, be shocked
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- 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.
- Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
- 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.
- 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.
- To schedule in intervals.
- We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
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