'Error' definitions:
Definition of 'error'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: mistake, error, fault]
noun
Inadvertent incorrectness [syn: erroneousness, error]
noun
A misconception resulting from incorrect information [syn: error, erroneous belief]
noun
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed [syn: error, misplay]
noun
Departure from what is ethically acceptable [syn: error, wrongdoing]
noun
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer [syn: error, computer error]
noun
Part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors" [syn: error, mistake]
Definition of 'Error'
From: GCIDE
- Error \Er"ror\, n. [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See Err.]
- 1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. [1913 Webster]
- His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Math.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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.
- Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See Blunder. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'error'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abomination,
- abuse of terms,
- Albigensianism,
- ALGOL,
- alphabetic data,
- alphanumeric code,
- angular data,
- antinomianism,
- Arianism,
- assembler,
- at fault,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bad job,
- bevue,
- binary digit,
- binary scale,
- binary system,
- bit,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blunder,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob,
- botch,
- breach,
- bug,
- bull,
- bungle,
- byte,
- catachresis,
- Catharism,
- clanger,
- clerical error,
- clumsy performance,
- COBOL,
- command pulses,
- commands,
- compiler,
- computer code,
- computer language,
- computer program,
- contorting,
- control signals,
- controlled quantity,
- correcting signals,
- corrigendum,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- data,
- deadly sin,
- delinquency,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- disgrace,
- distortion,
- Ebionitism,
- eisegesis,
- emanatism,
- enormity,
- Erastianism,
- erratum,
- erroneously,
- erroneousness,
- error in judgment,
- error signals,
- etourderie,
- evil,
- failure,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false doctrine,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faute,
- faux pas,
- feedback pulses,
- feedback signals,
- felony,
- film data,
- flagitiousness,
- flaw,
- flub,
- fluff,
- foozle,
- FORTRAN,
- foul-up,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- garbling,
- gaucherie,
- genocide,
- gloss,
- Gnosticism,
- goof,
- guilty act,
- hash,
- heavy sin,
- heresy,
- hexadecimal system,
- howler,
- human error,
- hylotheism,
- illusion,
- impropriety,
- in error,
- inaccuracy,
- incorrect,
- incorrectly,
- indecorum,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infamy,
- information,
- iniquity,
- injudiciousness,
- injury,
- injustice,
- input data,
- input quantity,
- instructions,
- Jovinianism,
- knavery,
- lapse,
- literal,
- Lollardy,
- machine language,
- malefaction,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malum,
- Manichaeanism,
- Manichaeism,
- mess,
- message,
- minor wrong,
- misapplication,
- misappreciation,
- misapprehension,
- misbelief,
- miscalculation,
- miscarriage,
- miscitation,
- miscomputation,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconjecture,
- misconstruction,
- miscount,
- miscue,
- misdeal,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdoing,
- misestimation,
- misevaluation,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- misidentification,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misplay,
- misprint,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- miss,
- misstatement,
- misstep,
- mistake,
- mistaken,
- mistakenly,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- misvaluation,
- Monophysism,
- Monophysitism,
- mortal sin,
- muff,
- multiple messages,
- near-miss,
- noise,
- nonfeasance,
- numeric data,
- obliquity,
- octal system,
- off day,
- offense,
- omission,
- oscillograph data,
- output data,
- output quantity,
- outrage,
- oversight,
- pantheism,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- Pelagianism,
- perversion,
- play,
- polar data,
- poor judgment,
- punch-card data,
- random data,
- rectangular data,
- reference quantity,
- reprobacy,
- rock,
- ruly English,
- sad work,
- scandal,
- screamer,
- shame,
- signals,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- single messages,
- skewed judgment,
- slip,
- slipup,
- solecism,
- squeezing,
- stumble,
- tort,
- torturing,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- twisting,
- typo,
- typographical error,
- unorganized data,
- untruth,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- villainy,
- visible-speech data,
- Waldensianism,
- wickedness,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrong construction,
- wrong impression,
- wrongdoing,
- Wyclifism
Words containing 'Error'
- Errorful,
- A clerical error,
- Error of collimation,
- Heeling error,
- Index error,
- Instrumental errors,
- Law of error,
- Mean error,
- Probable error,
- Residual error,
- Writ of error,
- algorithm error,
- by trial and error,
- computer error,
- disk error,
- hardware error,
- literal error,
- margin of error,
- plaintiff in error,
- programming error,
- rounding error,
- runtime error,
- semantic error,
- software error,
- syntax error,
- system error,
- trial and error,
- truncation error,
- typographical error,
- Error of the mean square,
- Law of frequency of error,
- error correction code,
- error-prone,
- inborn error of metabolism,
- rule of trial and error,
- trial-and-error,
- Mean-square error,
- error-correcting code,
- run-time error