mistake error fault | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention, he made a bad mistake, she was quick to point out my errors, I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults |
error misplay | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed |
rounding rounding error | (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals, the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding, taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small |
truncation error | (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished |
sampling | (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study |
random sampling | the selection of a random sample, each element of the population has an equal chance of been selected |
stratified sampling representative sampling proportional sampling | the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum |
trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
reading assignment | the reading of a passage assigned by the teacher |
acceptance sampling | a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents, involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected |
teaching reading | teaching beginners to read |
reading meter reading | the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments, he has a job meter reading for the gas company |
sampling | measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) |
lectern reading desk | desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer |
reading lamp | a lamp that provides light for reading |
reading room | a room set aside for reading |
sampling station sampler | an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something |
erroneousness error | inadvertent incorrectness |
error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
margin of safety safety margin margin of error | the margin required in order to insure safety, in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress |
chorionic villus sampling chorionic villus biopsy | a prenatal test to detect birth defects at an early stage of pregnancy, tissue from the chorionic villi is assayed |
palmistry palm reading chiromancy chirology | telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand |
reading | the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message, his main reading was detective stories, suggestions for further reading |
reading meter reading indication | a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument, he could not believe the meter reading, the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm |
error erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
interpretation reading version | a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something |
sample distribution sample sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
writ of error | a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial |
system error | an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules |
reading reading material | written material intended to be read, the teacher assigned new readings, he bought some reading material at the airport |
reading program | a program designed to teach literacy skills |
error mistake | part of a statement that is not correct, the book was full of errors |
misprint erratum typographical error typo literal error literal | a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind |
play reading | performance of a play by a group of readers |
reading clinic | a clinic for people with reading disabilities |
first reading | the first presentation of a bill in a legislature |
second reading | the second presentation of a bill in a legislature, to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US) |
reading | a particular interpretation or performance, on that reading it was an insult, he was famous for his reading of Mozart |
recitation recital reading | a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance, the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems |
error computer error | (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer |
hardware error | error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer |
disk error | error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk |
software error programming error | error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result |
semantic error run-time error runtime error | an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time |
syntax error | an error of language resulting from code that does not conform to the syntax of the programming language, syntax errors can be recognized at compilation time, a common syntax error is to omit a parenthesis |
algorithm error | error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result |
Reading | a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England |
appellant plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
reading teacher | someone who teaches students to read |