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It is an indication of the accuracy of a measurement/result. It may also be called the Error.
Measuring devices will all have an error associated with their measurements. For example, you may be using a thermometer with increments of 0.5°C. Thus you could be expected to read temperature with an accuracy of 0.1°C. A measurement would look like 32.7±0.1°C.
However, measuring devices will usually indicate somewhere the error in the result they give. So if your thermometer isn't very accurate it may have an error of ±1°C.
When doing calculations with error containing data, the error of the final answer can be calculated from the measurements and their errors. There is a general formula which allows calculation of error for any function:
s = error in measurement x
the derivatives are partial derivatives with respect to the corresponding variable x
The above formula is for non-linear combinations.
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