Illustration: At a Japanese produce shop before opening, the owner checks two empty mechanical countertop scales placed side by side. Their matching dials have simple ticks, with the zero position at the top.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

誤ご差さ

gosa

measurement error, calculation error

Example sentences

  1. 我々われわれは誤差ごさを見込みこんで余裕よゆうをとっておいた。

    We left a margin for error in our estimates.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 計算けいさんにいくらかの誤差ごさを考慮こうりょに入いれましたか。

    Have you allowed for any error in your calculation?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 長期ちょうきにわたり使用しようされたために誤差ごさが蓄積ちくせきすることになる。

    Because the calendar was used for a long period of time, errors had been accumulated.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 誤差

  • 誤mistake; errOnゴKunあやまる
  • 差distinction; differenceOnサKunさす・さし

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