fudge factor
Americannoun
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Now, lambda is enjoying a second life, but it remains a fudge factor without any physical explanation, and one possible basis for it doesn’t hold up.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023
You could add a fudge factor to account for future inflation, which is, unfortunately, unpredictable.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2022
For him it was a fudge factor, known as the cosmological constant, that he inserted into his equations to account for the fact that the universe didn’t collapse.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2014
That’s why, at the beginning of these things, they all have this huge fudge factor, and that’s why they hate the pledge.
From Slate • Nov. 27, 2012
A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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