error
pronunciation
How to pronounce error in British English:
UK [ˈerə(r)]
How to pronounce error in American English:
US [ˈerər]
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- Noun:
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- part of a statement that is not correct
Word Origin
- error
- error: see err
- error (n.)
- also, through 18c., errour; c. 1300, "a deviation from truth made through ignorance or inadvertence, a mistake," also "offense against morality or justice; transgression, wrong-doing, sin;" from Old French error "mistake, flaw, defect, heresy," from Latin errorem (nominative error) "a wandering, straying, a going astray; meandering; doubt, uncertainty;" also "a figurative going astray, mistake," from errare "to wander" (see err). From early 14c. as "state of believing or practicing what is false or heretical; false opinion or belief, heresy." From late 14c. as "deviation from what is normal; abnormality, aberration." From 1726 as "difference between observed value and true value." Words for "error" in most Indo-European languages originally meant "wander, go astray" (for example Greek plane in the New Testament, Old Norse villa, Lithuanian klaida, Sanskrit bhrama-), but Irish has dearmad "error," from dermat "a forgetting."
Synonym
Example
- 1. This is the classic network error .
- 2. The margin of error was three percentage points .
- 3. Think of it as a margin for regulatory error .
- 4. The failures range from error messages appearing during booking to inaccurate inventory and pricing displays .
- 5. Those who think recent returns will persist are especially prone to error .