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MARGIN OF SAFETY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does margin of safety mean?
• MARGIN OF SAFETY (noun)
The noun MARGIN OF SAFETY has 1 sense:
1. the margin required in order to insure safety
Familiarity information: MARGIN OF SAFETY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The margin required in order to insure safety
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
margin of error; margin of safety; safety margin
Context example:
in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress
Hypernyms ("margin of safety" is a kind of...):
margin (an amount beyond the minimum necessary)
index (a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number)
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