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Margin Of Safety

Definition: Margin Of Safety

Margin Of Safety

Noun

1. An index indicating the amount beyond the minimum necessary; "in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Margin Of Safety

DomainDefinitions

Environment

Maximum amount of exposure producing no measurable effect in animals (or studied humans) divided by the actual amount of human exposure in a population. (references)

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Synonyms: Margin Of Safety

Synonyms: margin of error (n), safety margin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Margin Of Safety

English words defined with "margin of safety": margin of errorsafety margin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "margin of safety": downloadingelectromagnetic compatibilityHazard Assessment, Health Advisory Levelprudent limit of endurance, prudent limit of patroltarget load. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Margin Of Safety

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Health

In spite of the theoretical window period, there are no data from clinical studies indicating that ALT screening would improve the margin of safety of blood transfusion. (references)

Thus, current blood storage conditions would not appear to provide an adequate margin of safety against transfusion-transmitted syphilis, should the donor screening test be eliminated. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Margin Of Safety

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

margin of safety

8
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Modern Translations: Margin Of Safety

Language Translations for "margin of safety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

margen de seguridad (security marge). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Margin Of Safety

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-g-i-m-n-o-r-s-t-y"

-3 letters: afforesting.

-4 letters: aragonites, marginates, morganites, restaffing.

-5 letters: aerations, affraying, anatomies, anatomise, animaters, animators, anisogamy, aragonite, egomanias, emanators, emigrants, estraying, firefangs, foresting, fostering, fragments, frontages, gainsayer, gyrations, manifesto, marginate, marinates, martagons, mastering, monastery, morganite, offerings, orangiest, oystering, oysterman, raffinose, safetying, safetyman, seafaring, sgraffito, signatory, streaming, tyramines.

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Alternative Orthography: Margin Of Safety


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 72 67 69 6E      4F 66      53 61 66 65 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010011 01100001 01100110 01100101 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#83 &#97 &#102 &#101 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0067 0069 006E      004F 0066      0053 0061 0066 0065 0074 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476784737580249722536772718691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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