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Meaning & Definition of Error in English

English

Error

/ɛrər/

noun

1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

  • "He made a bad mistake"
  • "She was quick to point out my errors"
  • "I could understand his english in spite of his grammatical faults"
synonym:
  • mistake,
  • error,
  • fault

2. Inadvertent incorrectness

synonym:
  • erroneousness,
  • error

3. A misconception resulting from incorrect information

synonym:
  • error,
  • erroneous belief

4. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

synonym:
  • error,
  • misplay

5. Departure from what is ethically acceptable

synonym:
  • error,
  • wrongdoing

6. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

synonym:
  • error,
  • computer error

7. Part of a statement that is not correct

  • "The book was full of errors"
synonym:
  • error,
  • mistake

Examples of using

This is an error.
The addition is correct, but there is an error in your subtraction.
There's an apostrophe missing. "It's and "its" are different." -- I know. It was a typing error.