error
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- errour (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English errour, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic (airzei, “error”), Gothic (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: ĕr'ə(r), IPA: /ˈɛ.ɹə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"Er@(r)/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛrə(r)
- Homophone: era (in non-rhotic US pronunciations)
[edit] Noun
error (countable and uncountable; plural errors)
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, BBC Sport:
- Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
- 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, BBC Sport:
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
[edit] Synonyms
- (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
- See also Wikisaurus:error
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[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from error
[edit] Translations
mistake
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difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one
baseball: play which is scored as having been made incorrectly
one or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement
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[edit] Verb
error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)
- (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
- Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
- This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
- (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
- The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
- (nonstandard) To err.
- 1993 December, Arie Kaufman (editor), Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC
- Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
- 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon
- By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
- 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing
- Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
- 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing
- Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...
- 1993 December, Arie Kaufman (editor), Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Translations
To show an error
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to cause or contain an error
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(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error — see err
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[edit] Latin
[edit] Noun
error (genitive errōris); m, third declension
[edit] Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
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| nominative | error | errōrēs |
| genitive | errōris | errōrum |
| dative | errōrī | errōribus |
| accusative | errōrem | errōrēs |
| ablative | errōre | errōribus |
| vocative | error | errōrēs |
[edit] Verb
error
- first-person singular present passive indicative of errō
[edit] Descendants
- English: error
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[edit] Noun
error m. (plural errores)
- An error
[edit] Synonyms
- equivocación f.
- yerro m.
