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errorless

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er⋅ror

  [er-er]
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–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.
7. 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)   
n.  

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

  2. The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.

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

  4. A mistake.

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

  6. 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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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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

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
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: er·ror
Pronunciation: 'er-&r
Function: noun
: a deficiency or imperfection in structure or function errors ofmetabolism>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

error er·ror (ěr'ər)
n.

  1. A defect or insufficiency in structure or function.

  2. 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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