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 |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
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 |
error erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
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 |
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 |
situation comedy sitcom | a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life |
situation comedy sitcom | a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life |
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 |
site situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings, the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides |
appellant plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
situation position | a condition or position in which you find yourself, the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils, found herself in a very fortunate situation |
situation state of affairs | the general state of things, the combination of circumstances at a given time, the present international situation is dangerous, wondered how such a state of affairs had come about, eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt |
no-win situation | a situation in which a favorable outcome is impossible, you are bound to lose whatever you do |
inborn error of metabolism | any of a number of diseases in which an inherited defect (usually a missing or inadequate enzyme) results in an abnormality of metabolism |
situation | a complex or critical or unusual difficulty, the dangerous situation developed suddenly, that's quite a situation, no human situation is simple |
trial-and-error | relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory, they adopted a trial-and-error procedure |
trial-and-error | trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated, he argued that all learning is a trial-and-error process that resembles biological evolution |
erring error-prone | capable of making an error, all men are error-prone |
empirically through empirical observation by trial and error | in an empirical manner, this can be empirically tested |