safety margin

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 safetymargin of error

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Questions about safety margin

What does safety margin mean?

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

What is another word for safety margin?

Close synonyms include margin of safety, margin of error. 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.