error

Definitions

1. The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
   uncountable
2. error, falta, equivocación.
3. A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
   countable
4. An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
5. Sin; transgression.
   countable, uncountable
6. The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
7. A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
   countable
8. The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
9. The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
   countable
10. A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
    countable
11. A mistake.
12. One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
    uncountable
13. Mathematics The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.
    Mathematics
14. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
    countable, uncountable
15. Abbr. E Baseball A defensive fielding or throwing misplay by a player when a play normally should have resulted in an out or prevented an advance by a base runner.
16. An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
    countable, uncountable
17. a mistake or inaccuracy, as in action or speech: a typing error.
18. an incorrect belief or wrong judgment
19. the condition of deviating from accuracy or correctness, as in belief, action, or speech: he was in error about the train times.

Equivalents

Examples

“"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.”

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