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n. An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.

n. The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.

n. The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.

n. A mistake.

n. Mathematics The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.

n. Baseball A defensive fielding or throwing misplay by a player when a play normally should have resulted in an out or prevented an advance by a base runner.

n. The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.

n. A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.

n. A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.

n. The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.

n. A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.

n. One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.

v. To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

v. To show or contain an error or fault.

v. To err.

n. A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

n. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong

n. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.

n. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.

n. The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.

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n. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.

n. 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.

n. A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

n. 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.

n. A wandering; a devious and uncertain course.

n. A deviation from the truth; a discrepancy between what is thought to be true and what is true; an unintentional positive falsity; a false proposition or mode of thought.

n. An inaccuracy due to oversight or accident; something different from what was intended, especially in speaking, writing, or printing: as, a clerical error (which see, below).

n. A wrong-doing; a moral fault; a sin, especially one that is not very heinous.

n. The difference between the observed or otherwise determined value of a physical quantity and the true value: also called the true error.

n. In law, a mistake in a judicial determination of a court, whether in deciding wrongly on the merits or ruling wrongly on an incidental point, to the prejudice of the rights of a party.

n. Perplexity; anxiety; concern.

n. In base-ball, a failure by one of the fielders to put out an opponent when he has the opportunity; a misplay by which a runner secures a base.

In law, upon an appeal, to reverse the judgment or other determination of the court below, on account of error in its proceedings.

n. inadvertent incorrectness

n. departure from what is ethically acceptable

n. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

n. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

n. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

n. part of a statement that is not correct

n. a misconception resulting from incorrect information

"The error was clearly the real cause of the banishment; what precisely this _error_ was Ovid does not reveal, but it appears from _Tr_ II 103-4 and _Tr_ III v 49-50 to have been the witnessing of some action that was embarrassing to the imperial family."

law of frequency of error   

truth   

evilness    evil    failure    misconception   

error of expectation    law of frequency of error    plaintiff in error    error in fact    fechnerian time-error    error of a planet    joinder in error    clerical error    error of a clock    defendant in error   

residual error   

error out   

failure    mistake    sin    hallucination    fault    delusion    fallacy    blunder    wandering    irregularity   

bearer    carer    fairer    ferrer    preparer    rarer    sharer    standard-bearer    starer    stretcher-bearer   

mistake    failure    change    data    fault    difficulty    weakness    value    difference    crime