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1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
   "she was quick to point out my errors"
   - mistake, fault
    
2. Inadvertent incorrectness
   - erroneousness
    
3. A misconception resulting from incorrect information
   - erroneous belief
    
4. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
   - misplay
    
5. Departure from what is ethically acceptable
   - wrongdoing
    
6. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
   - computer error
    
7. Part of a statement that is not correct
   "the book was full of errors"
   - mistake

Derived forms: errors

See also: err

Type of: evil, evilness, failure, happening, incorrectness, misconception, misstatement, natural event, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, occurrence, occurrent, wrongness

Encyclopedia: Error