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Noun: margin of safety
  1. The margin required in order to insure safety
    "in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress";
    - safety margin, margin of error

Derived forms: margins of safety

Type of: index, margin

Encyclopedia: Margin of safety

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