er·ror
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r)
KEY
NOUN:
- An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
- The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
- The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
- A mistake.
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Mathematics
The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.
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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.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English
errour, from Old French, from Latin
error, from
err
re,
to err; see
ers- in Indo-European roots
OTHER FORMS:
error·less
(Adjective)
