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 |
| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
| high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
wide-angle lens
fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
erroneousness
error | inadvertent incorrectness |
| error wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
| angular momentum | the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation, any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass, angular momentum makes the world go round |
| camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
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 |
angular artery
arteria angularis | the terminal branch of the facial artery |
angular vein
vena angularis | a short vein formed by the supraorbital vein and the supratrochlear vein and continuing as the facial vein |
error
erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
slant
angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
error correction code
ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
| 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 |
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 |
| bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
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 |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
appellant
plaintiff in error | the party who appeals a decision of a lower court |
| angular acceleration | (physics) the rate of change of the angular velocity of a rotating body |
| angular velocity | (physics) the rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body, usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute |
| angular unit | a unit of measurement for angles |
| straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
| angular position | relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established |
angular shape
angularity | a shape having one or more sharp angles |
| helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
| angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
| angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
hour angle
HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
| plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
| spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
| solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
| inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle
reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
| salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |