error
/ˈɛɹɚ/ · 2 syllables
Meaning
noun
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
“he made a bad mistake” - inadvertent incorrectness
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- part of a statement that is not correct
“the book was full of errors”
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Words that rhyme with error
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