Allowance (engineering), an engineering and machining allowance is a planned deviation between an actual dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension, or between an intermediate-stage dimension and an intended final dimension.
Deviation (statistics), the difference between the value of an observation and the mean of the population in mathematics and statistics
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