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 |
| n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
| p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
| pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
| type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug
slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
erroneousness
error | inadvertent incorrectness |
| error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
body type
somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type
ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy
pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type
mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
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 |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type
Rh-negative blood
Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
| type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style
style of architecture
type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
error
erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
type specimen
holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
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 |
| type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
| type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
| type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type
roman letters
roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
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 |
| type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
| type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
| type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
Alpine glacier
Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Piedmont glacier
Piedmont type of glacier | a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska, large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice |
appellant
plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |