error

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1. error - Noun

2. error - Verb

Meaning

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.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. Cicero

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Cicero

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. Cyprian

To make an error is human; pushing the same error is dumb. Portuguese Proverb

To make an error is human, keep doing it is foolishness. Portuguese Proverb

Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark. Chinese Proverb

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