NOUN
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the margin required in order to insure safety
in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress
How To Use margin of error In A Sentence
- When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
- The poll, conducted by telephone Jan. 2-7, has a margin of error of 5. 5 percentage points.
- But despite all the baggage, the immigration hard-liner is running a solid campaign for governor as a third-party candidate and is within the margin of error in several recent polls. Tancredo: Barack Obama Is A Greater Threat To The U.S. Than Al Qaeda
- The margin of error for a racing driver is tiny.
- The margin of error for each religious group is larger than for the sample as a whole. Christianity Today
- The polls had a margin of error of four percentage points.
- When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
- Because of the difficulties associated with radiocarbon dating, each new date is given a statistical margin of error.
- The poll, conducted by telephone Jan. 2-7, has a margin of error of 5. 5 percentage points.
- It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent.