error
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
error/ˈerə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a mistake.
■ the state of being wrong in conduct or judgement.
- 2 technical a measure of the estimated difference between the observed or calculated value of a quantity and its true value.
– derivatives
errorless adjective.
errorless adjective.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. error, from errare ‘to stray, err’.
'error' also found in these Oxford entries:
adverse
- alias
- base hit
- bloomer
- blooper
- bug
- cardinal sin
- clerical error
- correct
- correction
- correction fluid
- corrigendum
- cumulative error
- cycad
- damning
- dropout
- durmast oak
- earned run
- erratum
- error bar
- flaunt
- guilty
- heuristic
- human
- infallibility
- invert
- margin
- mea culpa
- millennium
- minuscule
- miscue
- misprint
- misprision
- mistake
- mistrial
- null hypothesis
- obsidian
- parachronism
- pardon
- random error
- redeem
- redemption
- residual
- run-out
- scoter
- slip
- spoonerism
- systematic error
- trial
