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Misreckoning

An erroneous computation.

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Boomerang 76% connected

A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to…

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Rounding 76% connected

of Round

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Error 76% connected

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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Fault 76% connected

Defect; want; lack; default.

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Mistake 76% connected

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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Misestimate 74% connected

To estimate erroneously.

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Misestimate 74% connected

To estimate erroneously.

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Bloomer noun · 84% connection

an embarrassing mistake

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Blot noun · 84% connection

an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

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Blunder noun · 84% connection

an embarrassing mistake

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Botch noun · 84% connection

an embarrassing mistake

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Bungle noun · 84% connection

an embarrassing mistake

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Cockup noun · 84% connection

something badly botched or muddled

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Confusion noun · 84% connection

a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"

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Distortion noun · 84% connection

the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

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Folly noun · 84% connection

a stupid mistake

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Foolishness noun · 84% connection

a stupid mistake

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Imbecility noun · 84% connection

a stupid mistake

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Incursion noun · 84% connection

the mistake of incurring liability or blame

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Lapse noun · 84% connection

a mistake resulting from inattention

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Miscue noun · 84% connection

a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

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Omission noun · 84% connection

a mistake resulting from neglect

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Oversight noun · 84% connection

a mistake resulting from inattention

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Renege noun · 84% connection

the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

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Revoke noun · 84% connection

the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

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Ab noun · 78% connection

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly…

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Account noun · 78% connection

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Amend verb · 78% connection

by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;

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Anachronistic adjective · 78% connection

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

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Arithmetic noun · 78% connection

The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures.

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Cacodoxy noun · 78% connection

Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.

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Calculation noun · 78% connection

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.

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Calcule noun · 78% connection

Reckoning; computation.

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Calculus noun · 78% connection

A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

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Castrate verb · 78% connection

To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.

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Coefficient noun · 78% connection

A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as t…

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Compt noun · 78% connection

Account; reckoning; computation.

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Computation noun · 78% connection

The result of computation; the amount computed.

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Compute noun · 78% connection

Computation.

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