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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Relations between the U.S. and Europe are complicated by the personal equation.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are experimentalists, like Picasso, and those who, like Braque, discover their personal equation and go on repeating it.
From Time Magazine Archive
For there is always the personal equation to be studied in a matter of this kind, and Elderkin had given much thought to the members of his crew.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
The personal equation in that look silenced and startled Mrs. Crump.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
It must be the physician's business to find out in each individual case, according to his own personal equation, just how he may be able to use at least some of it.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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