error
/ˈɛrɝ/
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Definitions
Noun
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"
Noun
inadvertent incorrectness
Noun
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
Noun
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
Noun
departure from what is ethically acceptable
Noun
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
Noun
part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
More General Terms
evil
evilness
failure
happening
incorrectness
misconception
misstatement
natural event
nonaccomplishment
nonachievement
occurrence
occurrent
wrongness
More Specific Terms
algorithm error
balls-up
ballup
betise
bloomer
blooper
blot
blunder
boner
boo-boo
botch
bungle
cockup
confusion
corrigendum
deviation
distortion
erratum
flub
folly
foolishness
foul-up
fuckup
hardware error
imbecility
incursion
lapse
literal
literal error
mess-up
miscalculation
miscue
misestimation
misprint
misreckoning
mix-up
offside
omission
oversight
parapraxis
pratfall
programming error
renege
revoke
skip
slip
slip-up
smear
smirch
software error
spot
stain
stupidity
typo
typographical error