noun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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- he made a bad mistake
- she was quick to point out my errors
- I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
noun
inadvertent incorrectness
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noun
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
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erroneous belief
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(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
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noun
departure from what is ethically acceptable
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noun
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
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computer error
noun
part of a statement that is not correct
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- the book was full of errors