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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