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 |
correction rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake, setting right |
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 |
house of correction | (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences |
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 |
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 |
correction | something substituted for an error |
writ of error | a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial |
checking program | a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors |
system error | an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules |
correction chastening chastisement | a rebuke for making a mistake |
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 |
appellant plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
checking account chequing account current account | a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand |
correction fudge factor | a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure |
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 |
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 |