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glide paths

glide paths is the plural of glide path.

Meaning of glide path

Noun

glide path (plural glide paths)

  1. The path of an aircraft as it lands under low power; especially, such a path advised to a pilot by radar assistance from the ground.
  2. (broadly) The pattern of systematic withdrawal of money from a retirement portfolio.
  3. (broadly, figuratively) A course that leads smoothly to a particular outcome.
    • The reason I say we’re not on a glide path to AGI is that simply taking this capability to 11 does not substitute for the parts that are still missing.2025 April 11, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, quoting David Autor, “Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about glide paths

What is glide paths the plural of?
Glide paths is the plural of glide path.

Words near glide paths in the dictionary

  1. glide kip
  2. GLIDE number
  3. GLIDE numbers
  4. glide pad
  5. glide path
  6. glide paths
  7. glide ratio
  8. glide ratios
  9. glide reflection
  10. glide reflections
  11. glide slope

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