Electronics. the rate of loss or attenuation of a signal beyond a certain frequency.
Aeronautics. the tendency of an airplane to lower one wing under varying conditions of flight.
Noun use of verb phrase roll off
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Take for instance roll-on roll-off ferries that typically carry passengers, trucks and cargo, but are now built to defense standards and train with the military.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Ports in Charleston, Jacksonville, Fla., Newark and Norfolk, Va., can also handle roll-on, roll-off ships.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Months later, an inspector saw an Eco Waste Solutions truck deposit a roll-off container on the Cheverly property.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
The roll-on roll-off ferry operated between Dover and Zeebrugge.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2022
Every fiddler, flute-player, drummer, and curlecued horn-man in Europe has been brought over here to thunder-out and roll-off billows of sound for people to pay for and wonder at.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
As each new plane type reaches scale, costs such as pilot training, engineer certification and spare-parts inventory build will begin to roll off, Creech notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Just over half of mortgaged households will roll off fixes and are expected to see higher monthly payments over the next three years.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Roughly 35% of outstanding U.S. options exposure is set to roll off by March 20, when contracts tied to indexes, individual stocks and ETFs and index futures are due to expire on the same day.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026
When QE ends, term deposits would roll off unless renewed, and the balance sheet would shrink by default.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
A gold-flecked word that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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