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 |
detection catching espial spying spotting | the act of detecting something, catching sight of something |
correction rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake, setting right |
detection detecting detective work sleuthing | a police investigation to determine the perpetrator, detection is hard on the feet |
trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
correction | treatment of a specific defect, the correction of his vision with eye glasses |
discipline correction | the act of punishing, the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received |
explosive detection system EDS | a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using Xay technology and computers, designed for use in airports |
explosive trace detection ETD | a system for screening luggage in airports, an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives |
house of correction | (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences |
radar microwave radar radio detection and ranging radiolocation | measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects |
ship-towed longange acoustic detection system | a shipboard system consisting of an acoustic detection system that is towed behind the ship |
erroneousness error | inadvertent incorrectness |
error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
correction | a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases, market runups are invariably followed by a correction |
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 |
detection sensing | the perception that something has occurred or some state exists, early detection can often lead to a cure |
error erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
signal detection detection | the detection that a signal is being received |
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 |
correction | something substituted for an error |
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 |
ethic ethical code | a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct |
code codification | a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) |
legal code | a code of laws adopted by a state or nation, a code of laws |
penal code | the legal code governing crimes and their punishment |
United States Code U. S. Code | a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States, is prepared and published by a unit of the United States House of Representatives |
building code | set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings |