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Definition: Margin Of Safety |
Margin Of SafetyNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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 SafetySynonyms: margin of error (n), safety margin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Margin Of Safety |
| English words defined with "margin of safety": margin of error ♦ safety margin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "margin of safety": downloading ♦ electromagnetic compatibility ♦ Hazard Assessment, Health Advisory Level ♦ prudent limit of endurance, prudent limit of patrol ♦ target load. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
margin of safety | 8 |
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| 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. | ||
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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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)
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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)M a r g i n   O f   S a f e t y |
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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