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- 1 The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. uncountable
""Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner?[…]""
- 2 a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention wordnet
- 3 A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. countable
"There was a large error in the accounts."
- 4 (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed wordnet
- 5 Sin; transgression. countable, uncountable
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- 6 inadvertent incorrectness wordnet
- 7 A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination. countable
- 8 departure from what is ethically acceptable wordnet
- 9 The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one. countable
- 10 a misconception resulting from incorrect information wordnet
- 11 A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly. countable
- 12 part of a statement that is not correct wordnet
- 13 One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement. uncountable
- 14 (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer wordnet
- 15 Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing. countable, uncountable
- 16 An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner. countable, uncountable
- 1 To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
"The web-page took a long time to load and errored out."
- 2 To show or contain an error or fault.
"The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received."
- 3 To err. nonstandard
"Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in."
Etymology
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”, noun), derived from the verb errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”, noun), derived from the verb errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).
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