probable error

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The time-lapse due to distance had a presumed correction and there was a considerable probable error in the speed of translation of the ship during overdrive.

From Talents, Incorporated by Leinster, Murray

It rises rapidly, however, as one advances among the mountains, until at Boca it attains the high figure of +0.604 or eight times the probable error, and continues high in the dry area farther east.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

Sunspots of a given month and earthquakes of that month and the next: +0.084, or 3.1 times the probable error.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

"Two-sevenths of our force, with a probable error of one in seven," replied the younger Vorkul.

From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

An examination of 1407 angles showed that the probable error of an observed angle is on the average �0″.28.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various