registration
enrollment
enrolment | the act of enrolling |
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 |
convergence converging
convergency | the act of converging (coming closer) |
| screen pass | a short forward pass in which the receiver is protected by a screen of blockers |
| trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
| registration fire | fire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets |
| adjustment registration readjustment | the act of adjusting something to match a standard |
smoke screen
smokescreen | an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure, requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures |
| active matrix screen | a type of LCD screen used for some portable computers, there is a separate circuit for each pixel |
background desktop
screen background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
blind
screen | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet |
computer screen
computer display | a screen used to display the output of a computer to the user |
fire screen
fireguard | a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) |
light filter
diffusing screen | a transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it |
| rood screen | a screen in a church, separates the nave from the choir or chancel |
| screen | a protective covering consisting of netting, can be mounted in a frame, they put screens in the windows for protection against insects, a metal screen protected the observers |
screen cover covert
concealment | a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something, a screen of trees afforded privacy, under cover of darkness, the brush provided a covert for game, the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background |
| screen | partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space |
| screen CRT screen | the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathodeay tube |
screen silver screen
projection screen | a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing |
screen door
screen | a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting, used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door, he heard the screen slam as she left |
| screen saver | (computer science) a moving design that appears on a computer screen when there has been no input for a specified period of time, screen savers prevent the damage that occurs when the same areas of light and dark are displayed too long |
sieve
screen | a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles |
silkscreen
silk screen print
serigraph | a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil |
smoke screen
smokescreen | (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements |
touch screen
touchscreen | a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen |
| wide screen | a projection screen that is much wider than it is high |
| window screen | screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open window |
erroneousness
error | inadvertent incorrectness |
| error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
| registration | (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music, the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops |
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 |
overlap
convergence intersection | a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena, there was no overlap between their proposals |
convergence
convergency | the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit |
error
erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
| screen memory | an imagined memory of a childhood experience, hides another memory of distressing significance |
| silver screen | the film industry |
error correction code
ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
license number
registration number | the number on the license plate that identifies the car that bears it |
| registration | a document certifying an act of registering |
| 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 |
screen font
raster font | the font that is displayed on a computer screen, when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed |
error
computer error | (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer |