typographical error
Use Typographical error in a sentencetypographical error
noun
an error in printed or typewritten matter resulting from striking the improper key of a keyboard, from mechanical failure, or the like.
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typographical error definition
(typo) An error while inputting text via keyboard, made despite the fact that the user knows exactly what to type in. This usually results from the operator's inexperience at keyboarding, rushing, not paying attention, or carelessness.
Compare: mouso, thinko.
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Typographical error
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
The typographical error and omission are a clerical oversight.
Anything in my book that suggests otherwise is the result of a typographical error.
The reference to respirable sampling in the written record was a typographical error.
It reads as if there was a typographical error in it.
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