Word Meaning

Meaning of error

- A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
- A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
- A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
- A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
- The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
- The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
- The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error.
- A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
- A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.

Crossword clue for error

- a mistake
- Alarm losing time causes miscalculation
- Blooper
- Blooper in bower, Rory
- Blunder
- Boo-boo
- Fault
- Faux pas
- Hesitation before right or wrong action
- imprecision
- Inaccuracy
- It will be marked with a cross
- Miscalculation
- Misconception
- Misjudgment
- Mistake
- Officer Rory covered up mistake
- Omission
- Slip-up
- Terrorism embraces inaccuracy
- Typo