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 |
reaction
response | a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent, a bad reaction to the medicine, his responses have slowed with age |
galvanic skin response
GSR
psychogalvanic response
electrodermal response
electrical skin response
Fere phenomenon
Tarchanoff phenomenon | a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety, can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body |
immune response
immune reaction
immunologic response | a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen |
anamnestic response
anamnestic reaction | renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen |
| humoral immune response | an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells |
| cell-mediated immune response | an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells |
reflex
reflex response
reflex action
instinctive reflex
innate reflex
inborn reflex
unconditioned reflex
physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
conditional reflex
conditioned reflex
acquired reflex
conditional reaction
conditioned reaction
conditional response
conditioned response | an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus |
learned reaction
learned response | a reaction that has been acquired by learning |
conditioned avoidance
conditioned avoidance response | a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus |
startle response
startle reaction | a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise), involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions |
erroneousness
error | inadvertent incorrectness |
| error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
| frequency response | (electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency |
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 |
| response | the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals |
conditioned emotional response
CER
conditioned emotion | an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning |
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 |
| response | a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister |
| 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 |
| reception response | the manner in which something is greeted, she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors |
| answer reply response | a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation, I waited several days for his answer, he wrote replies to several of his critics |
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 |
reply
response | the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange, he growled his reply |
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 |
| response | a result, this situation developed in response to events in Africa |
| 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 |
reaction time
response time
latency
latent period | the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it |
| 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 |