personal equation
Americannoun
noun
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the variation or error in observation or judgment caused by individual characteristics
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the allowance made for such variation
Etymology
Origin of personal equation
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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There are experimentalists, like Picasso, and those who, like Braque, discover their personal equation and go on repeating it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relations between the U.S. and Europe are complicated by the personal equation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the latter the personal equation, the skill and the loving, workmanlike fidelity of the individual toiler to his task impart a quality which dead mechanism can neither create nor supersede.
From Lace, Its Origin and History by Goldenberg, Samuel L.
One must not forget the personal equation which enters into even accurate instrumental recording in medicine and surgery.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
That was simply an acknowledgment of her complete effacement of the personal equation.
From Famous Prima Donnas by Strang, Lewis Clinton
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