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 |
air terminal
airport terminal | a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight |
bus terminal
bus depot
bus station
coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
| job-oriented terminal | a terminal designed for a particular application |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
remote terminal
link-attached terminal
remote station
link-attached station | a terminal connected to a computer by a data link |
terminal
terminus depot | station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods |
| terminal pole | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves |
| terminal | electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer, has a keyboard and display |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
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 |
| terminal emulation | (computer science) having a computer act exactly like a terminal |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
end
terminal | either extremity of something that has length, the end of the pier, she knotted the end of the thread, they rode to the end of the line, the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix |
appellant
plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
| 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 |
| terminal leave | final leave before discharge from military service |
terminus ad quem
terminal point
limit | final or latest limiting point |
| terminal velocity | the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity |
| 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 |
| terminal | causing or ending in or approaching death, a terminal patient, terminal cancer |
concluding
final
last
terminal | occurring at or forming an end or termination, his concluding words came as a surprise, the final chapter, the last days of the dinosaurs, terminal leave |
| terminal | being or situated at an end, the endmost pillar, terminal buds on a branch, a terminal station, the terminal syllable |
| terminal | relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time, terminal examinations, terminal payments |
| terminal | of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route, freight pickup is a terminal service, terminal charges |
empirically
through empirical observation
by trial and error | in an empirical manner, this can be empirically tested |