error
Nouns
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(n) 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
- (n) inadvertent incorrectness erroneousness,
- (n) a misconception resulting from incorrect information erroneous belief,
- (n) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed misplay,
- (n) departure from what is ethically acceptable wrongdoing,
- (n) (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer computer error,
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(n) part of a statement that is not correct
- the book was full of errors