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 |
hide-and-seek
hide and go seek | a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them |
| trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
acetate disk
phonograph recording disk | a disk coated with cellulose acetate |
| brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
compact disk
compact disc
CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner
CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
disk
disc | a flat circular plate |
| disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
| disk cache | a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk |
| disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
| disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
disk drive
disc drive
hard drive
Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
diskette
floppy
floppy disk | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit, used to store data or programs for a microcomputer, floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
disk harrow
disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
magnetic disk
magnetic disc
disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
optical disk
optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
phonograph record
phonograph recording
record
disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
| RAM disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors, access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off |
| Rayleigh disk | an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread, when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity |
| removable disk | a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive, removal prevents unauthorized use |
erroneousness
error | inadvertent incorrectness |
| error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
circularity
disk shape | the roundness of a -dimensional figure |
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 |
intervertebral disc
intervertebral disk | a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
blind spot
optic disc
optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
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 |
| disk file | (computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label |
| writ of error | a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial |
DOS
disk operating system | an operating system that is on a disk |
MS-DOS
Microsoft disk operating system | an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers |
| 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 |
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 |
| seek | the movement of a read
write head to a specific data track on a disk |
disk pack
disc pack | (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device |