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 |
| trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
| standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
| standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
| standard banner | any distinctive flag |
| standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
| standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
| standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
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 |
| gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion
standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
| standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
error correction code
ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
American Standard Version
American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
| Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
| 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 |
Standard and Poor's
Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
| double standard | an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another |
| double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
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 |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
| non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
standard
criterion
measure touchstone | a basis for comparison, a reference point against which other things can be evaluated, the schools comply with federal standards, they set the measure for all subsequent work |
procrustean standard
procrustean rule
procrustean bed | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality |
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 |
appellant
plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
color bearer
standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
| standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |
standard
monetary standard | the value behind the money in a monetary system |
| gold standard | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold |
| silver standard | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of silver |