fudge factor

1. 1.

   a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure

   Synonymscorrection

   Broaderindefinite quantity

Questions about fudge factor

What does fudge factor mean?

fudge factor means "a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure".

What is another word for fudge factor?

Close synonyms include correction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fudge factor a common word?

fudge factor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.