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position error
position error n. (a) the variation in the timekeeping of a watch, the reading on an aircraft instrument, etc., resulting from its being in a particular position or attitude; (b) error in estimated, measured, or calculated position.
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1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 65 Only the finer class of watches..are as a rule tested for position errors. Position errors..are often confounded with a want of isochronism.
1958 A. G. Avery in H. Comstock Conc. Encycl. Amer. Antiques 490 Position error, the change in rate of a watch when run in different positions.
1988 M. Agazarian Instrument Flying (BNC) 11 The Airspeed Indicator shows Indicated Airspeed (IAS). This has to be corrected for Position Error (Static Pressure effected by movement of the aircraft in relation to the position of the Pitot head and static vents).
2001 Today's Pilot Feb. 64/2 It needs to be converted to a Rectified Air Speed (RAS) by removing the so-called instrument and position errors.
2002 Geophysics in UK (Royal Astron. Soc.) 35/2 An uncorrected perturbation of the signal by the ionosphere and plasmasphere would give position errors of tens of metres.
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