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English
Alternative forms
- errour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ĕrʹə(r); IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə(ɹ)/
- (US) enPR: ĕrʹər; IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: error
- Homophone: era (in non-rhotic accents)
- Homophones: air, e'er, ere, heir (in some US pronunciations)
- Homophone: err (in some US pronunciations)
Noun
error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- 1913, The Inland printer:
- "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]"
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- 2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:
- "Well over 400 trains and thousands of passengers from across the South were disrupted by this single error of judgement," said Network Rail's Route Director for Sussex, Katie Frost.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
Synonyms
- (state of being wrong): wrength
- (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
- See also Thesaurus:error
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- alpha error
- beta error
- category error
- comedy of errors
- error bar
- error box
- error catastrophe
- error correct
- error correction
- error diffusion
- error-free, errorfree
- error function
- error handler
- error handling
- error in judgement
- error in judgment
- error message
- error of judgement
- error of judgment
- error of the first kind
- error of the second kind
- error-prone
- error-proneness
- error-ridden
- error treatment
- fatal system error
- fencepost error
- forced error
- human error
- in error
- ironic error
- logic error
- margin of error
- non-error
- off-by-one error
- Othello error
- plaintiff in error
- probable error
- refractive error
- relative error
- rounding error
- see the error of one's ways
- standard error
- trial and error
- type I error
- type II error
- α error
- β error
Related terms
Translations
mistake
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computing: failure to complete task
statistics: difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one
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baseball: play which is scored as having been made incorrectly
appellate law: one or more mistakes in a trial
any alteration in the DNA chemical structure
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Verb
error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)
- (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
- Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
- This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
- (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
- The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
- (nonstandard) To err.
- 1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:
- Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
- 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon:
- By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
- 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing:
- Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
- 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing:
- Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
To show an error
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to cause or contain an error
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(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error — see err
See also
Asturian
Etymology
Noun
error m (plural errores)
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
error m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural errors)
- error
- Synonyms: equivoc, equivocació, incorrecció
Related terms
Further reading
- “error” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “error”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “error” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “error” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
Noun
error m (plural errores)
Related terms
Further reading
- “error” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *erzōs. Equivalent to erro (“I err, I stray”) + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
error m (genitive errōris); third declension
- wandering, straying, going astray
- wavering, uncertainty
- error, mistake, fault
- delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding
- solecism
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | error | errōrēs |
| Genitive | errōris | errōrum |
| Dative | errōrī | errōribus |
| Accusative | errōrem | errōrēs |
| Ablative | errōre | errōribus |
| Vocative | error | errōrēs |
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
error
References
- “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- error in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- error in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
- to be mistaken: in errore versari
- to be in gross error, seriously misled: magno errore teneri
- to be in gross error, seriously misled: in magno errore versari
- to fall into error: erroribus implicari (Tusc. 4. 27. 58)
- to take a false step: per errorem labi, or simply labi
- to lead a person into error: aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere
- to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
- to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem tollere
- to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem amputare et circumcīdere
- to totally eradicate false principles: errorem stirpitus extrahere
- to amend, correct one's mistake: errorem deponere, corrigere
- to undeceive a person: alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere
- (ambiguous) erroneous opinion: opinionis error
- (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
- the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
error m (plural errores)
- error
- Synonyms: equivocación, yerro
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “error”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014