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.

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

inadvertent incorrectness

departure from what is ethically acceptable

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"