correction factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcorrectionandfactor
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correction
noun
uk/kəˈrek.ʃən/us/kəˈrek.ʃən/
a change made to something in order to correct or improve it, or the action of making such ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofcorrectionandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Is the samecorrectionfactorrequired in all engineering applications?
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A baselinecorrectionfactorwas calculated over 400 ms preceding the stimulus or the response.
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We believe that acorrectionfactorof 10% of world crop seed/fruit tonnage is conservative.
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Thecorrectionfactorto the irrotational temperature distribution is the average circulation.
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Analyses by external detector method using 0.5 for the 2 /4 geometrycorrectionfactor.
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Soils with high carbonate carbon concentrations require acorrectionfactorincluding the inorganic carbon content.
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This provided acorrectionfactorto estimate actual numbers from the in situ counts, allowing comparisons between the sampling dates.
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Thecorrectionfactorwould then be underestimated by less than 0.01, which we can neglect at present.
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The comparison of ma for the two periods is determined by the value of thecorrectionfactorused.
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The sign of thiscorrectionfactoris ambiguous and depends on the sign of the marginal risk effect of the input at hand.
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The weighted mean percentage parasitism was determined by dividing the number of parasitoids emerged by thecorrectionfactor(1.34) and multiplying by 100.
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For a given number of tied values, the contribution to thecorrectionfactoris bigger if they are all in the same group.
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Therefore, acorrectionfactorfor the same was experimentally determined by increasing the distance of the crystal from the plasma source to 221 mm.
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The results indicated that thecorrectionfactorwas not significant and had no substantial influence on the parameter estimates of other variables in the models.
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The weights for the goal attraction,correctionfactorfor height and obstacle repulsion are left at their default values (specified earlier).
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Multiplicative separation of the final value would include two parts: a geometricalcorrectionfactor, and the amplification due to one-dimensional beach run-up.
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As lung tissue does not attenuate the radiation beam to the same extent as normal tissue, a lungcorrectionfactormay be employed.
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Furthermore, we made a second comparison using acorrectionfactorthat takes into account the bouncing effect inherent to each trap design.
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The difference is acorrectionfactorthat covers the joint effect of household risk preferences and the marginal risk effect of the input.
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The intertemporal h-option value is acorrectionfactorthat has to be taken into account in evaluating the total economic value of feasible actions.
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As a result it appears that a simple displacement thickness approach to the viscouscorrectionfactor for the problem is not quantitatively sufficient.
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The fact that, in the real life, the time in retirement is shorter than at work is taken into account by acorrectionfactor.
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The intertemporal h-option value represents a furthercorrectionfactorthat has to be introduced into the evaluation of total economic value of environmental feasible actions.
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The peak absorbance was computed as the mean of 21 points centered on this guess, divided by 0.9896, thecorrectionfactorderived from a rhodopsin template.
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