fudging
English edit
Verb edit
fudging
- present participle and gerund of fudge
Noun edit
fudging (countable and uncountable, plural fudgings)
- The act of something being fudged, altered so as to hide a flaw or uncertainty.
- 1984, Journal for the History of Astronomy, volume 15, numbers 6-7, page 46:
- And what of the falsifications, the fudgings and fabrications of observations? Hartner has found evidence that fudging was common enough, in a time when there was as yet no theory of error, no rules for the consistent use of significant figures, […]