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2 terms beginning with E
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Empiricism
Gaining knowledge through experience without the aid of theory — the historical driver of straightener set-ups, whose extreme wire deflections of the 1950s-70s gave way to modern designs that combine empirical knowledge with scientific theory.
Errors
Errors result from avoidable and unavoidable processes or actions; the simplest correction is to avoid them or minimize their repercussions, and unavoidable errors should be corrected as soon as they occur rather than at the end of a process chain.