error
Use Error in a sentence
ər noun
1.
a deviation from accuracy or correctness; a mistake, as in action or speech: His speech contained several factual errors.
2.
belief in something untrue; the holding of mistaken opinions.
3.
the condition of believing what is not true: in error about the date.
4.
a moral offense; wrongdoing; sin.
5.
Baseball. a misplay that enables a base runner to reach base safely or advance a base, or a batter to have a turn at bat prolonged, as the dropping of a ball batted in the air, the fumbling of a batted or thrown ball, or the throwing of a wild ball, but not including a passed ball or wild pitch.
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World English Dictionary
error (ˈɛrə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a mistake or inaccuracy, as in action or speech: a typing error |
| 2. | an incorrect belief or wrong judgment |
| 3. | the condition of deviating from accuracy or correctness, as in belief, action, or speech: he was in error about the train times |
| 4. | deviation from a moral standard; wrongdoing: he saw the error of his ways |
| 5. | maths, statistics a measure of the difference between some quantity and an approximation to or estimate of it, often expressed as a percentage: an error of 5% |
| 6. | statistics type I error See type II error |
| [C13: from Latin, from errāre to | |
| error-'free | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
error
c.1300, from O.Fr. errur, from L. errorem (nom. error) "a wandering, straying, mistake," from errare "to wander" (see err). Words for "error" in most I.E. languages originally meant "wander, go astray" (but Ir. dearmad "error," from dermat "a forgetting").
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
error er·ror (ěr'ər)
n.
A defect or insufficiency in structure or function.
An act, an assertion, or a decision, especially one made in testing a hypothesis, that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
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Computing Dictionary
error definition
1. A discrepancy between a computed, observed, or measured value or condition and the true, specified, or theoretically correct value or condition.
2.
3. (verb) What a program does when it stops as result of a programming error.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Besides the horrific grammar error in the first line, the question is technically wrong.
The message must not be playable in error but it must be immediately playable if there is an emergency.
Not only was the video in the left and right panels indistinguishable, the text that described the video panels was also in error.
Most physicists eventually concluded that the extra energy was either a fluke or the product of an experimental error.
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