safety factor

1. 1.

   the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use

   Synonymsfactor of safety

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Questions about safety factor

What does safety factor mean?

safety factor means "the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use".

What is another word for safety factor?

Close synonyms include factor of safety. 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 safety factor a common word?

safety 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.