error

1. n. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. Source: opted

4. n. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. Source: opted

5. n. The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. Source: opted

6. n. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. Source: opted

7. n. 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. Source: opted

8. n. A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact. Source: opted

9. n. 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. Source: opted

10. n. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention Source: wordnet

11. n. inadvertent incorrectness Source: wordnet

12. n. a misconception resulting from incorrect information Source: wordnet

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