margin of error

1. 1.

   the margin required in order to insure safety

   “in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress”

   Synonymsmargin of safetysafety margin

   Broadermarginindex

Questions about margin of error

What does margin of error mean?

margin of error means "the margin required in order to insure safety".

What is another word for margin of error?

Close synonyms include margin of safety, safety margin. 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 margin of error a common word?

margin of error 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.