Talk:Engineering tolerance

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[edit] Application to Wikipedia

It seems to me that tolerances can also be applied to quality control in article editing. For example in stating a name of an individual in an article, instead of writing John, the editor may want to research to find that the individual not only had a middle name never used in public, but abbreviated his first name from Johnathan.--Mrg3105 (talk) 11:16, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

And in engineering and safety, to the physical distance or space (tolerance), as in a truck (lorry), train or boat under a bridge as well as a train in a tunnel (see structure gauge and loading gauge). Peter Horn 04:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Margin of error

It was suggested that "engineering tolerance" be merged with "margin of error". These two are only losely related. Margin of error deals mostly with the variation of the measurement process and statistical data presentation. Engineering tolerance is the amount of variation the end-use will tolerate. These are different. Rlsheehan (talk) 19:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Tag now removed. --Salix alba (talk) 17:04, 10 May 2008 (UTC)