cumulative error

"They think it's a cumulative error caused by their segmented positioning system.

The box piped out a new total cumulative error before' he had time to touch the beads to find the true tone and try again.

The Julian year was too long, and by 1582 the cumulative error was estimated at 10 days, so they were skipped.

P-Star's cumulative error of 5 percent was greater than the inflation rate for all of 1988.

On such voyages, cumulative errors in dead reckoning frequently led to shipwrecks and lost lives.

Dead reckoning is subject to cumulative errors.

Thus the mechanism did a kind of directional dead reckoning, which is inherently prone to cumulative errors and uncertainties.

U.S. utilities correct their frequency once the cumulative error has reached 3-10 sec.

Indeed, it was the observation of this inherent, cumulative error, for digital systems that is the origin of chaos theory.

This design would have worked as a compass for short journeys, but would have suffered from cumulative errors if used for long ones.

From experience he made allowance for the cumulative error in his boxed chronometer, and worked out a position which he knew was accurate to within ten miles.

It also eliminates the cumulative errors inherent in the direct, R&D method when it is extended beyond the short-term horizon.

Consequently, the body fat percentage calculated from skin folds or other anthropometric methods carries the cumulative error from the application of two separate statistical models.

Early PRT vehicles measured their position by adding up the distance using odometers, with periodic check points to compensate for cumulative errors.

An internal magnetometer is also used for calibrating the controller's orientation against the Earth's magnetic field to help correct against cumulative error (drift) by the inertial sensors.

It is often invoked as a metaphor for cumulative error, especially the inaccuracies as rumours or gossip spread, or, more generally, for the unreliability of human recollection.

However, long MD simulations are mathematically ill-conditioned, generating cumulative errors in numerical integration that can be minimized with proper selection of algorithms and parameters, but not eliminated entirely.

Whether these cumulative errors and possibilities for tampering invalidated all of the forensic evidence, they opened the way for jurors to conclude that there was reasonable doubt about the damning laboratory findings.

Under warp they weren't so lucky, but they knew the design parameters of the ship and could calculate its position, with a cumulative error of only ten or twenty thousand kilometers per minute.

Another reason for the use of code names and code phrases in the military is that they transmit with a lower level of cumulative errors over a walkie-talkie or radio link than actual names.

For some reason - we can't seem to isolate the cause - but it appears we have a cumulative error in our segment positioning system, making it look as though asteroid 2021 KD has changed its course."

The two parts are not always interchangeable; the small difference of 0.08mm can give rise to a cumulative error which could mean that a metric pitch part will not necessarily fit an 0.1" pitch p.c.b., and vice versa.

Pipe stretch and compression will occur from time to time but are not corrected for during normal operations, even though they can introduce fairly significant cumulative errors on driller's depth, particularly in deep wells or in areas of hard rock.

Although planters and drills use physical markers to match up between one pass and the next, cumulative errors can be large and non-cropped tracks created by these machines (tramlines) for chemical applications can often have an overlap of 5%.

If a third road wheel was included, this type of south-pointing chariot could have worked quite accurately as a compass when used for short journeys under good conditions, but if used for long journeys it would have been subject to cumulative errors, like chariots using the differential mechanism.