potential error
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialanderror
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈer.ər/us/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition ofpotentialanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpotential error
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Based on apotentialerrormessage, they might modify a word or a sentence that is not in fact wrong and hence make things worse.
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We report the first quantified assessment of thepotentialerrorcaused by scavenging in post-mortem measurements of predation in a slug- carabid system.
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We now intend to use it to investigate the elucidation of type errors where there are multiplepotentialerrorsources.
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To minimize thepotentialerrorintroduced by respiratory translation of cardiac position, acquisition of images in older children and adults was timed with end expiration.
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It is a tribute to her assiduity that she should have discovered apotentialerror.
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A colleague has seen no fewer than 45 areas ofpotentialerrorand uncertainty in the first 15 pages.
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Another source ofpotentialerrorin measurement came from the bending and twisting of the long magnetometer boom.
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Any prediction has its own complexities of reality that can not be represented uniquely in the calibrated model; therefore, there is apotentialerror.
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Manual interfaces and information passed by word of mouth arepotentialerrorsources and obstacles.
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This allows for the intensive computational problems to be solved, and reduces the amount ofpotentialerrorfrom a realistic brain model.
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Potential errors in the fish points association give rise to incoherent or divergent length and weight estimations, which can be eliminated by postprocessing filters.
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These potential errors are presented with examples from personal experience and the literature.
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However, the authors are responsible for all potential errors as well as the views and opinions expressed in the paper.
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Treatment margins are calculated as the addition in quadrature of several potential errors.
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Follow-up of notified cases also identified potential errors.
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A second strategy to overcome potential errors is to analyze image data under the assumption that the world is stable.
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This enables them to rule out natural causes for recent warming and the potential errors in the modelling rise the bigger the predicted changes.
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Potential errors caused by scavenging binding between antibodies and antigen.
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