Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun margin_of_safety

1 sense of margin of safety

Sense 1
margin of safety, safety margin, margin of error -- (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 -- (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)