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Audio Help [er-er] Pronunciation Key | 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. |
| 7. | Law.
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| 8. | Philately. a stamp distinguished by an error or errors in design, engraving, selection of inks, or setting up of the printing apparatus. Compare freak1 (def. 5), variety (def. 8). |
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error
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| er·ror
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n.
[Middle English errour, from Old French, from Latin error, from errāre, to err; see ers- in Indo-European roots.] er'ror·less adj. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
error
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| error | |
noun | |
| 1. | 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] |
| 2. | inadvertent incorrectness [syn: erroneousness] |
| 3. | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
| 4. | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed |
| 5. | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
| 6. | (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer |
| 7. | part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
error1 [ˈerə]
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
- 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.
| The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
Main Entry: er·ror
Pronunciation: 'er-&r
Function: noun
: a deficiency or imperfection in structure or function <inborn errors of
metabolism>
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Main Entry: er·ror
Function: noun
: an act that through ignorance, deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done <procedural
errors>; especially : a mistake made by a lower court in conducting judicial proceedings or making findings in a case <to compel to conclusion that a manifest
error has been done —Moses v. Burgin, 445 Federal Reporter, Second Series 369 (1971)> —often used without an article <had been 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
| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
error
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.
(2000-03-28)
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
Error
Blun"der\, n. 1. Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.] 2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance. Syn: Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. Usage: An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Error
Re*sid"u*al\ (r?-z?d"?-al), a. [See Residue.] Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken. Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental. Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b) . Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as [root](a-b).| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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