error
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Noun (7)errors
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention“he made a bad mistake”“she was quick to point out my errors”“I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults”Synonyms: mistakefaultType of nonaccomplishment, nonachievementKinds oversight, stupidity, miscalculation, blunder, omission, slip, ballup, confusion, revoke, blot +3 more
- inadvertent incorrectnessSynonyms: erroneousnessType of incorrectness, wrongnessKinds ungrammaticality, deviation
- a misconception resulting from incorrect informationSynonyms: erroneous beliefType of misconception
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficedSynonyms: misplayType of failure
- departure from what is ethically acceptableSynonyms: wrongdoingType of evil, evilness
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computerSynonyms: computer errorType of happening, occurrenceKinds algorithm error, software error, hardware error
- part of a statement that is not correct“the book was full of errors”Synonyms: mistake
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Translations
Noun mistake
- Spanish
- error
- French
- erreur
- German
- Fehler
- Italian
- errore
- Portuguese
- erro
- Turkish
- hata
- Russian
- оши́бка ošíbka
- Arabic
- خَطَأ ḵaṭaʔ
- Chinese
- 错误 cuòwù
- Japanese
- エラー erā
30 more languages
- Dutch
- fout
- Polish
- błąd
- Swedish
- fel
- Greek
- λάθος láthos
- Korean
- 에러 ereo
- Indonesian
- kesalahan
- Vietnamese
- lỗi
- Hungarian
- hiba
- Portuguese (PT)
- erro
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 錯誤 cuòwù
- Albanian
- gabim
- Catalan
- error
- Czech
- omyl
- Danish
- fejl
- Esperanto
- eraro
- Estonian
- viga
- Finnish
- virhe
- Georgian
- შეცდომა šecdoma
- Hebrew
- טָעוּת ta'út
- Icelandic
- villa
- Latvian
- kļūda
- Lithuanian
- klaida
- Norwegian
- feil
- Romanian
- eroare
- Scottish Gaelic
- mearachd
- Slovak
- chyba
- Slovenian
- napaka
- Swahili
- kasoro
- Welsh
- gwall
- Yiddish
- טעות toes
Noun measurement error (statistics)
- Spanish
- error
- French
- erreur
- German
- Fehler
- Italian
- errore
- Portuguese
- erro
- Turkish
- hata
- Russian
- погре́шность pogréšnostʹ
- Chinese
- 误差 wùchā
- Japanese
- 誤差 gosa
- Dutch
- fout
18 more languages
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See Err.
1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. obsolete
The rest of his journey, his error by sea.— Ben Jonson
2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired.— George Bancroft
4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. Ps. xix. 12.
5. Mathematics The difference between the approximate result and the true result; — used particularly in the rule of double position.
6. Mensuration (a) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. (b) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; — sometimes called residual error.
7. Law. A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
8. Baseball A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
Law of error, or Law of frequency of error Mensuration, the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity. — Probable error. Mensuration See under Probable. — Writ of error Law, an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court. Bouvier. Burrill.
Synonyms: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See Blunder.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.A discrepancy between a computed, observed, or measured value or condition and the true, specified, or theoretically correct value or condition.
2.<programming> A mental mistake made by a programmer that may result in a program fault.
3.(verb) What a program does when it stops as result of a programming error.
(2000-03-28)