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 |
| program trading | a trading technique involving large blocks of stock with trades triggered by computer programs |
program
programme | a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation, the program lasted more than two hours |
| trial and error | experimenting until a solution is found |
pilot project
pilot program | activity planned as a test or trial, they funded a pilot project in six states |
| work-study program | an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
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 |
algorithm
algorithmic rule
algorithmic program | a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem |
heuristic
heuristic rule
heuristic program | a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem |
audit program
audit programme | a listing of audit procedures to be performed in completing an audit |
error
erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
plan
program
programme | a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished, they drew up a six-step plan, they discussed plans for a new bond issue |
| program programme | a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need, he proposed an elaborate program of public works, working mothers rely on the day care program |
| Apollo program | a program of space flights undertaken by US to land a man on the Moon, the first lunar landing was achieved by the Apollo program on July , |
| Gemini program | a program of space flights undertaken by US in and , under the Gemini program each crew had two astronauts |
| Mercury program | a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between and with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth, under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut |
defense program
defense policy
defence program
defence policy | a program for defending a country against its enemies |
| educational program | a program for providing education |
| rehabilitation program | a program for restoring someone to good health |
| space program | a technological program intended to explore outer space |
Superfund program
Superfund | the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund |
| vocational rehabilitation program | a program of rehabilitation through job training with an eye to gainful employment |
tax program
tax policy | a program for setting taxes |
| academic program | (education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education) |
| training program | a program designed for training in specific skills |
| preemployment training program | a training program to prepare you for employment |
| vocational program | a program of vocational education |
| works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
pension plan
pension account
retirement plan
retirement savings plan
retirement savings account
retirement account
retirement program | a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement |
error correction code
ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
platform
political platform
political program
program | a document stating the aims and principles of a political party, their candidate simply ignored the party platform, they won the election even though they offered no positive program |
| writ of error | a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial |
software
software program
computer software
software system
software package
package | (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read
write memory, the market for software is expected to expand |
program programme computer program
computer programme | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute, the program required several hundred lines of code |
| anti-virus program | a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread |
application application program
applications programme | a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task, he has tried several different word processing applications |
binary
binary program | a preompiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system, a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system, the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems |
| malevolent program | a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects |
assembler
assembly program | a program to convert assembly language into machine language |
| checking program | a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors |
compiler
compiling program | (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program |
| diagnostic program | a program that recognizes and explains faults in the equipment or mistakes in a computer program |
editor program
editor | (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data |
| input program | a utility program that organizes the input to a computer |