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
The personal equation in that look silenced and startled Mrs. Crump.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
The personal equation must always be taken into account in dealing with either; excellent sportsmen of equal experience give conflicting accounts of the performances of the two types.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
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.
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