Sentence examples for fudge factor from inspiring English sources
noun
A quantity introduced to compensate for uncertainty.
- We don't know exactly how much the load will weigh, so we'll add in a fudge factor to make sure we don't underestimate.
Einstein's fudge factor was back.
But his fudge factor refused to die.
But it justified, in retrospect, his fudge factor.
In earlier years, the fudge factor was seven minutes.
Relieved of their fudge factor, the equations describing Einstein's universe were simple.
So Einstein added a fudge factor that he called the cosmological constant to his equations.
It had no fudge factors -- no dials to twiddle.
Of the five FUDGE factors, he says, "Unobtrusiveness seems especially important".
Vehicles that run on pure electricity, mixtures of gasoline and E85 ethanol, compressed natural gas and hydrogen (fuel-cell vehicles now in the demonstration stage) all required adjustments — in layman's terms, fudge factors — to the way energy consumption is reported.
One widely discussed file extracted from the unit's computers, presumed to be the log of a researcher named Ian Harris, recorded his years of frustration in trying to make sense of disparate data and described procedures — or "fudge factors," as he called them — used by scientists to eliminate known sources of error.
The biggest models have improved substantially in the last few years, with many no longer requiring "flux adjustments" -- essentially fudge factors -- that were once needed to prevent the machine-generated, theoretical climates from drifting out of the realm of the possible.
