SAFETY MARGIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does safety margin mean? 

• SAFETY MARGIN (noun)
  The noun SAFETY MARGIN has 1 sense:

1. the margin required in order to insure safety

  Familiarity information: SAFETY MARGIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAFETY MARGIN (noun)

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 ("safety margin" 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)

 Context examples 

The cardiac lead failed to administer a shock and had an inadequate defibrillator threshold safety margin.

(Failure to Shock with Inadequate Defibrillator Threshold Safety Margin, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)