WRONG/INCORRECTthe degree to which a calculation might or can be wrong 误差值,误差幅度
The survey has a margin of error of 2.1%.
这次调查的误差值为2.1%。
Examples from the Corpus
margin of error• The poll has a margin of error of three percent.• The poll has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.• Obviously the figure is subject to a margin of error.• Over two years of use, for more than 4,000 tests, it has never strayedbeyond the permittedmargin of error.• Because of the difficultiesassociated with radiocarbon dating, each new date is given a statisticalmargin of error.• The margin of error is plus or minus one percent.