decalage

There may be a decalage between the way Mr. Clinton's speech sounds and the negotiations."

Cabane struts also serve to maintain correct wing stagger, angle of incidence and decalage .

Positive decalage results in greater lift from the upper wing than the lower wing, the difference increasing with the amount of decalage.

It also had a lower angle of attack: viewing this tandem wing aircraft as a biplane with a large negative stagger of c, the decalage was -3 .

The decalage is said to be positive when the upper wing has a higher angle of incidence than the lower wing, and negative when its angle of incidence is lower.

Similarly, the theorist of cognitive development, Piaget, described situations in which children could solve one type of problem using mature thinking skills, but could not accomplish this for less familiar problems, a phenomenon he called horizontal decalage.

In real life the biplane top wing is usually rigged with less angle of incidence - i.e. negative decalage, causing the airstream separation and ensuing loss of lift (stall) occur first on the lower wing, providing the biplane with extra margin of stability in stall.