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 |
attestation service attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
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 |
reputation report | the general estimation that the public has for a person, he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing, he was a person of bad report |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
composition paper report theme | an essay (especially one written as an assignment), he got an A on his composition |
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 |
report news report story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |
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 |
report account | the act of informing by verbal report, he heard reports that they were causing trouble, by all accounts they were a happy couple |
report study written report | a written document describing the findings of some individual or group, this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale |
progress report | a report of work accomplished during a specified time period |
medical report | a report of the results of a medical examination of a patient |
report card report | a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment, his father signed his report card |
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 |
report | a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing), they heard a violent report followed by silence |
appellant plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
income statement earnings report operating statement profit-and-loss statement | a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period |
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 |
report out | return a bill after consideration and revision to a legislative body |
report describe account | to give an account or representation of in words, Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental |
report | make known to the authorities, One student reported the other to the principal |
report | complain about, make a charge against, I reported her to the supervisor |
report | announce one's presence, I report to work every day at o'clock |
report | announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding, Dozens of incidents of wife beatings are reported daily in this city, The team reported significant advances in their research |
report d cover | be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism, Snow reported on China in the's, The cub reporter covered New York City |
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 |