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 |
practice pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior, it is their practice to give annual raises, they changed their dietary pattern |
trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
design pattern figure | a decorative or artistic work, the coach had a design on the doors |
fret Greek fret Greek key key pattern | an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief), there was a simple fret at the top of the walls |
herringbone herringbone pattern | a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way, it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery |
willowware willow-pattern | chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river |
erroneousness error | inadvertent incorrectness |
error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
inheritance hereditary pattern | (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents |
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 |
convention normal pattern rule formula | something regarded as a normative example, the convention of not naming the main character, violence is the rule not the exception, his formula for impressing visitors |
melody tonal pattern | the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes |
error erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
blueprint design pattern | something intended as a guide for making something else, a blueprint for a house, a pattern for a skirt |
form shape pattern | a perceptual structure, the composition presents problems for students of musical form, a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them |
pattern | a model considered worthy of imitation, the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics |
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 |
radiation pattern radiation diagram pattern | graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle |
intonation pattern | intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements |
poetic rhythm rhythmic pattern prosody | (prosody) a system of versification |
accent speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression, he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent, she had a very clear speech pattern |
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 |
traffic pattern approach pattern pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
holding pattern | the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land |
appellant plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
holding pattern | a state of inaction with no progress and no change, you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment |
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 |
male-patterned baldness male pattern baldness | loss of hair on the crown of the head |
pattern-bomb | bomb in certain patterns |
model pattern | plan or create according to a model or models |
pattern | form a pattern, These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before |
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 |
empirically through empirical observation by trial and error | in an empirical manner, this can be empirically tested |