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error - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'error' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Error [ n.]
- A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
- 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.
- A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
- A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
- The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
- The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
- 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.
- A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
- 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.

Meaning of 'error' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . error [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Example in sentence:
  • he made a bad mistake;
  • I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults;
  • she was quick to point out my errors
Meaning (2):
- part of a statement that is not correct
Example in sentence:
  • the book was full of errors