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error
noun
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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ˈɛɹə(ɹ)
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noun
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
“He made a bad mistake”
noun
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
noun
Inadvertent incorrectness
noun
Departure from what is ethically acceptable
noun
A misconception resulting from incorrect information
noun
Part of a statement that is not correct
“The book was full of errors”
noun
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
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He made a bad mistake
She was quick to point out my errors
I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
The book was full of errors
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