Usually means: Likely deviation from expected accuracy.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. probable error: Merriam-Webster
  2. probable error: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. probable error: Wordnik
  4. probable error: Wiktionary
  5. probable error: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. probable error: Dictionary.com
  7. Probable error: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. probable error: FreeDictionary.org
  9. probable error: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. probable error: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Probable Error: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Probable Error: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (probable error)

noun:  (statistics) The half-range of an interval about a central point for the distribution, such that half of the values from the distribution will lie within the interval and half outside.

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