personal equation
noun
The correction required in scientific observations (originally in astronomy) to compensate for the habitual inaccuracy of an individual observer; (in extended use) the component of a situation which relates to or arises from an individual's personal qualities.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. After German Personal-Gleichung (F. W. Bessel, 1822).
- Havant
- Havarti
- Havasu, Lake
- Havdalah
- have
- have a ball
- have a bee in one's bonnet
- have a bird
- haveable
- have a bone to pick with someone
- have a bun in the oven
- have a cadenza
- have a care
- have a care (or an eye etc.)
- have a clue
- have a cow
- have a feel for
- have a few
- have a finger in every pie
- have a finger in the pie
- have a foot in both camps
- have a frog in one's throat
- haveage
- have-a-go
- have a go at