Slip (of an asynchronous machine)

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A measure of the amount by which the actual speed of rotation of the field is less than the synchronous speed. It may be expressed as the difference of the speeds, or as the ratio of this difference to the synchronous speed.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)