margin of safety

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margin of safety - the margin required in order to insure safety; "in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress"

margin of error, safety margin

margin - an amount beyond the minimum necessary; "the margin of victory"

index - a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number

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As it was, her margin of safety was next to negligible, for as she swung nimbly to the lower branches the creature in pursuit of her crashed among the foliage almost upon her as it sprang upward to seize her.

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