How to Use error bar in a Sentence

error bar

noun

• The wider the horizontal line, the bigger the error bar.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2022
• But the big story here is the range of values covered by those error bars.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
• And while the error bars would be large, the method can at least say something interesting.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2020
• The biggest reason the error bars on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet trend are so large is that slow upward rebound of the bedrock beneath the ice.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 13 June 2018
• All of the estimates of the drivers of short-term cooling and long-term warming have pretty large error bars still.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 May 2018
• While the averages obviously tended to be similar, the error bars on a set of 10 are much wider.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2020
• And, even as technology improves, some sets of error bars stubbornly refuse to overlap.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
• The category estimates in the methane emissions ledger have large enough error bars on them that bumping some up and others down could accommodate this revision.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2020
• Although there are huge uncertainties as to the precise impacts of climate change, with large error bars around temperature forecasts, enough is known to say that global warming represents one of the main threats to Africa’s prosperity.
  — The Economist, 26 Mar. 2020
• For example, even though error bars seem exact, people often misunderstand them.
  — Jessica Hullman, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2019
• The range of values is entirely contained within the error bars of a previous measurement made using an atom interferometer.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
• The result was a specific prediction, relying on the contributions of many theorists, with a minuscule error bar that made a clear experimental target.
  — Robert P. Crease, Scientific American, 2 May 2021

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024