PERSONAL EQUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personal equation mean? 

• PERSONAL EQUATION (noun)
  The noun PERSONAL EQUATION has 1 sense:

1. variability attributable to individual differences

  Familiarity information: PERSONAL EQUATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONAL EQUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Variability attributable to individual differences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("personal equation" is a kind of...):

variability; variableness; variance (the quality of being subject to variation)

 Context examples 

In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton’s intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)