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Definition of Error

Error A wandering; a roving or irregular course. 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. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. 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. A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact. 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. Related Definitions: An, And, Approximate, As, Base, Be, Between, Called, Clerical, Computed, Course, Court, Departing, Deviation, Difference, Double, Duty, Error, Fact, Failure, False, Falsity, Fault, Field, From, Gives, Him, In, Inaccuracy, Iniquity, Irregular, Irregularity, Is, Law, Left, Made, Misapprehension, Mistake, Moral, Notion, Observed, Of, Offense, On, Opinion, Or, Other, Out, Particularly, Player, Position, Printing, Put, Quantity, Record, Residual, Result, Right, Roving, Rule, Side, Sin, Something, Sometimes, Standard, Taken, That, The, To, Transgression, True, Truth, Unearned, Used, Value, Violation, Wandering, Which, Writing, Wrong

Error Quotations Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. Lee Scott It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. Victor Hugo There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. Samuel Butler

Error Translations error in Afrikaans is fout error in Danish is fejl error in Dutch is dwaling, abuis, vergissing, fout error in Finnish is virhe error in French is erreur, abus error in German is Irrtum, Irrtum error in Italian is vizio, errore error in Latin is lapsus, error, erratum, peccamen, mendum menda error in Norwegian is mistak, feil error in Portuguese is defeito, erro error in Swedish is misstag, fel, villfarelse

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