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 |
erroneousness error | inadvertent incorrectness |
error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
tilt list inclination lean leaning | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical, the tower had a pronounced tilt, the ship developed a list to starboard, he walked with a heavy inclination to the right |
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 |
code of conduct code of behavior | a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group |
error erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
list system scrutin de liste scrutin de liste system | based on the principle of proportional representation, voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote |
code | a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy |
access access code | a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) |
area code | a number usually of digits assigned to a telephone area as in the United States and Canada |
bar code Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
color code | system using colors to designate classifications |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
Morse Morse code international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
ZIP code ZIP postcode postal code | a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail |
code computer code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions |
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 |
binary code | code using a string of binary digits to represent characters |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
machine code machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
object code | the machine-language output of a compiler that is ready for execution on a particular computer |
operation code order code | the portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed, the set of operations in a computer |
source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
list listing | a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) |
A-list | a list of names of specially favored people, the boss gave me his A-list of people we should try to recruit |
class list honours list | a list issued by examiners that categorizes students according to the class of honours they achieved in their degree examinations |
distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
free list | a list of commodities that are not subject to tariffs |
grocery list | a list of groceries to be purchased |
grocery list shopping list | a list of heterogenous items that someone wants, the union came to the table with a whole grocery list of demands |
hit list | a list of victims to be eliminated (as by murder) |
inventory stock list | a detailed list of all the items in stock |
mailing list | a list of names and addresses to which advertising material is mailed |
playlist play list | a list of musical selections for performance or for broadcast by radio |
price list | a listing of prices for different goods or services |
push-down list push-down stack stack | a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
shopping list | a list of items to be purchased |
short list shortlist | a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen |
sick list | a list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc) |
wish list | a list of events that you wish would occur |
waiting list | a roster of those waiting to obtain something |
Roman law Justinian code civil law jus civile | the legal code of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian, the basis for many modern systems of civil law |
writ of error | a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial |
logic bomb slag code | a set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or `explode') if a particular condition is satisfied, when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects, a disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb |
system error | an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules |