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
That was simply an acknowledgment of her complete effacement of the personal equation.
From Famous Prima Donnas by Lewis Clinton Strang
It was the personal equation as supplied by her that made the thing impossible.
From The Crime Doctor by Ernest William Hornung
Indeed, it is evident that the personal equation must largely determine what any writer's conception of the Middle Ages is.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
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