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Definition of error : 1. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
2. A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
3. A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
5. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
6. A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
7. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
8. The difference between the approximate result and the true result; - used particularly in the rule of double position.
9. The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; - sometimes called residual error.

Synonyms:

misplay, geological fault, absurdity, wrong, botch, faulting, misdoing, misreport, illusion, break, screw-up, falseness, correct, deviation, miscue, actus reus, goof, misunderstanding, erroneousness, faux pas, fluff, failure, true, fracture, misbelief, shift, erratum, mispronunciation, computer error, boner, bungle, misstep, foul-up, blooper, erroneous belief, trip, misapprehension, lapse, miss, sin, wrongful conduct, demerit, omission, transgression, delusion, muff, slip-up, stumble, hallucination, phantasm, slight, misusage, wrongdoing, solecism, misconduct

error (part of speech: noun)

fault, misconception, misestimation, defect, inaccuracy, typo, misprint, distortion, blunder, misconstruction, slip, fallacy, flaw, aberration, falsehood, mistake, misjudgment, oversight, miscalculation, gaffe

wrongness (part of speech: noun)

faultiness, badness, perversion, illegality, incorrectness, untruth, fallaciousness, falsity, wrongness

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