on the fly

See also: on-the-fly

English

Alternative forms

on-the-fly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

on the fly (not comparable)

(baseball, of the ball) While in the air, without having touched the ground.
Jones caught the ball on the fly.
(idiomatic) Spontaneously or extemporaneously; done as one goes, or during another activity.
The software program has a table of values for some results, but calculates others on the fly.

Synonyms

(spontaneously): on the spot, on the hoof (Britain)

Derived terms

OTFE, on-the-fly encryption

Translations

while in the air

Danish: i farten, i skyndingen
Catalan: al vol
Finnish: lennosta
French: à la volée (fr)
Portuguese: sem sobressaltos
Russian: на лету́ (ru) (na letú)
Spanish: al vuelo (es)
Swedish: i flykten, på lyra
Turkish: uçarken

spontaneously or extemporaneously

Finnish: lennosta
French: à la volée (fr), sur le fly (fr)
German: in Eile (de), spontan (de), unvorbereitet (de), ohne Vorbereitung, fliegend (de), auf die Schnelle (de), improvisiert (de)
Polish: w locie
Russian: на лету́ (ru) (na letú)
Spanish: al vuelo (es), a vuelapluma, sobre la marcha
Swedish: i flykten
Turkish: anında (tr), hazırlıksız (tr)

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