Error

/ˈɛɹə/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
2. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
3. (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
4. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
5. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
6. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
7. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
8. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.

Example Sentences

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

There was a large error in the accounts.

Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.

"Well over 400 trains and thousands of passengers from across the South were disrupted by this single error of judgement," said Network Rail's Route Director for Sussex, Katie Frost.

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.

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

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Word Forms

• errors
• errour
• erroring
• errored

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