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er⋅ror

[er-er]

–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.

6.	Mathematics. the difference between the observed or approximately determined value and the true value of a quantity.

Law.

a.	a mistake in a matter of fact or law in a case tried in a court of record.

b.	writ of error.

8.	Philately. a stamp distinguished by an error or errors in design, engraving, selection of inks, or setting up of the printing apparatus. Compare freak ¹ (def. 5), variety (def. 8).

Origin:
1250–1300; ME errour < L errōr- (s. of error), equiv. to err- err + -or -or ¹

Related forms:

er⋅ror⋅less, adjective

er⋅ror⋅less⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. blunder, slip, oversight. See mistake. 4. fault, transgression, trespass, misdeed.

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er·ror (ěr'ər)

An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
A mistake.
Mathematics The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.
Abbr. E 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.

[Middle English errour, from Old French, from Latin error, from errāre, to err; see ers- in Indo-European roots.]
er'ror·less adj.

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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.]

The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B. 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.

H? judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired. --Bancroft.

4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12.

5. (Math.) 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.

Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See Blunder.

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Language Translation for : error

Spanish: error,

German: der Fehler,

Japanese: 誤り

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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").

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: er·ror
Function: noun
: an act that through ignorance, deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done errors>; especially : a mistake made by a lower court in conducting judicial proceedings or making findings in a case error has been done —Moses v. Burgin, 445 Federal Reporter, Second Series 369 (1971)> —often used without an article error to give the jury special interrogatories —K. A. Cohen>; —see also ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR, CLEARLY ERRONEOUS
NOTE: Generally a party must object to an error at trial in order to raise it as an issue on appeal.

clear error
: an error made by a judge in his or her findings of fact which is such that it leaves the reviewing court with the firm and definite conviction that a mistake has been made
NOTE: A clear error may or may not warrant reversal.

fundamental error
: PLAIN ERROR in this entry —used esp. in criminal cases

harmless error
: an error that does not affect a substantial right or change the outcome of a trial and does not warrant reversal or other modification of the lower court's decision on appeal

invited error
: an error resulting from a party's own request for or encouragement of an action by the court
NOTE: A party may not seek relief based on invited error that he or she has induced.

manifest error
: an error that is obvious and indisputable and that warrants reversal on appeal

plain error
: an obvious and prejudicial error that affects the substantial rights of the parties and that results or probably results in a miscarriage of justice
NOTE: Plain error warrants reversal on appeal even in the absence of objection to the error at trial.

prejudicial error
: an error that affects or presumptively affects the outcome of a trial

reversible error
: a substantial and prejudicial error warranting reversal on appeal

Main Entry: er·ror
Pronunciation: 'er-&r
Function: noun
: a deficiency or imperfection in structure or function errors ofmetabolism>

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.

error
1. A discrepancy between a computed, observed, or measured value or condition and the true, specified, or theoretically correct value or condition.
2. 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)

error

see comedy of errors; trial and error.

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