leeway

pelivara

sivuttain ajelehtiminen The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0321246780, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html249198

Within an expression that is not (comment)-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; (..)

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