error

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• errour (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ĕr'ə(r), IPA: /ˈɛɹə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"Er@(r\)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɛɹɚ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrə(r)
• Homophone: era (in non-rhotic US pronunciations)

Noun

error (countable and uncountable; plural errors)

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
   • 1913, The Inland printer:

     "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]"

2. (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.

3. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
4. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
5. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
6. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.

Synonyms

• (state of being wrong): wrength
• (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
• See also Wikisaurus:error

Related terms

• err
• errant
• erroneous
• erroneously

Derived terms

terms derived from error

absolute error compass error error bar error catastrophe error correction error handler error handling error in judgement error in judgment error of judgement error of judgment

error message error-ridden in error margin of error measurement error plaintiff in error sampling error syntax error trial and error typographical error unforced error

Translations

mistake

• Afrikaans: fout (af)
• Armenian: սխալ (hy) (sxal)
• Asturian: error (ast) m
• Bashkir: хата (xata)
• Bulgarian: грешка (bg) (greška) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 错误 (cmn), 錯誤 (cmn) (cuòwù), 失误 (cmn), 失誤 (cmn) (shīwù)

• Czech: chyba (cs) f, omyl (cs) m
• Danish: fejl (da) c, fejltagelse (da) c, forseelse (da) c
• Dutch: fout (nl), vergissing (nl) f, onjuistheid (nl) f
• Estonian: viga (et)
• Finnish: erehdys (fi), virhe (fi)
• French: erreur (fr) f
• Galician: erro (gl) m
• German: Fehler (de) m
• Greek: λάθος (el) (láthos) n
• Hebrew: טעות (he) (taoot)
• Hungarian: hiba (hu)
• Icelandic: mistök (is) f, villa (is) f, skyssa (is) f
• Indonesian: kesalahan (id)
• Irish: botún (ga) m, dearmad (ga) m, earráid (ga) f
• Italian: errore (it) m
• Japanese: 誤り (ja) (あやまり, ayamari), 間違い (ja) (まちがい, machigai)

• Korean: 실수 (ko) (silsu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هه‌ڵه‌ (ku) (hele)

• Latvian: kļūda (lv) f
• Lithuanian: klaida (lt) f
• Luhya: ekasoro
• Old Irish: erráit f
• Polish: błąd (pl) m
• Portuguese: erro (pt) m
• Russian: ошибка (ru) (ošíbka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: mearachd (gd) f, iomrall (gd) m
• Slovak: chyba (sk) f
• Slovene: napaka (sl) f
• Sotho: phoso (st)
• Spanish: error (es) m
• Swahili: kasoro (sw)
• Swedish: fel (sv) n
• Tagalog: mali (tl)
• Turkish: yanlış (tr), hata (tr), kusur (tr), yanılgı (tr), suç (tr)

difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one

• Armenian: սխալ (hy) (sxal)
• Asturian: error (ast) m
• Bulgarian: грешка (bg) (greška) f, отклонение (bg) (otklonenie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 误差 (cmn), 誤差 (cmn) (wùchā)

• Czech: chyba (cs) f
• Danish: afvigelse (da) c
• Dutch: fout (nl), afwijking (nl)
• Finnish: virhe (fi)
• German: Fehler (de) m
• Greek: σφάλμα (el) (sfálma) n
• Icelandic: skekkja (is) f
• Italian: errore (it) m

• Japanese: 誤差 (ja) (ごさ, gosa)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هه‌ڵه‌ (ku) (hele)

• Latvian: novirze (lv) f
• Lithuanian: paklaida (lt) f
• Polish: błąd pomiaru (pl) m
• Portuguese: erro (pt) m
• Russian: погрешность (ru) (pogr'éšnost') f
• Slovak: chyba (sk) f
• Slovene: napaka (sl) f
• Spanish: error (es) m

baseball: play which is scored as having been made incorrectly

• Icelandic: Villa (is) f

• Japanese: エラー (ja) (erā), 失策 (ja) (しっさく, shissaku)

one or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 误审 (cmn), 誤審 (cmn) (wù-shěn)

• Czech: pochybení (cs) n
• Danish: fejl (da) c
• Dutch: procedurefout (nl)
• German: Irrtum (de) n

• Italian: vizio (it) m
• Slovak: pochybenie (sk) n
• Slovene: sodna napaka (sl) f

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Translations to be checked

• French: erreur f
• Greek: σφάλμα n
• Hebrew: שגיאה f, טעות f

• Romanian: eroare f, greșeală f
• Slovene: napaka f
• Spanish: error m, yerro m
• Swedish: fel n, misstag n

Verb

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

1. (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.

2. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.

   The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.

3. (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...

Synonyms

• err

Translations

To show an error

• Bulgarian: показвам грешка (bg) (pokazvam greška)

to cause or contain an error

• Bulgarian: съдържам грешка (bg) (sǎdǎržam greška)

(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error — see err

Derived terms

• error out

See also

• Error on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• unerring

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin error.

Noun

error m (plural errores)

1. error

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Galician

Noun

error m (plural errores)

1. Alternative form of erro.

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Latin

Noun

error (genitive errōris); m, third declension

1. wandering
2. wavering, uncertainty
3. error, mistake, delusion
4. solecism

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	error	errōrēs
genitive	errōris	errōrum
dative	errōrī	errōribus
accusative	errōrem	errōrēs
ablative	errōre	errōribus
vocative	error	errōrēs

Verb

error

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of errō

Descendants

• English: error

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin error.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [eˈroɾ], X-SAMPA: /e"ro4/

Noun

error m (plural errores)

1. error

Synonyms

• equivocación f
• yerro m

Related terms

• errar