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margin of safety
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margin of safety [′mär·jən əv ′sāf·tē]
(design engineering)
A design criterion, usually the ratio between the load that would cause failure of a member or structure and the load that is imposed upon it in service.


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Full-service brokers 29% Accountants 28% Investment advisers 22% Financial planners 16% Note: Data have a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
Proposition 74 had 46 percent support and 48 percent opposition - but factoring in the poll's margin of error of 3 percent makes it too close to call, experts said.
An A40 carcass is typically from an animal 14 months or younger, and the margin of error on this classification is only up to 17 months old.
 
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