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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.

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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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