error

• errour (obsolete)

From Middle English errour, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.

• (UK) enPR: ĕr'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹɚ/
  • (some accents) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrə(r)
• Hyphenation: error
• Homophone: era (in non-rhotic US pronunciations)
• Homophones: air, e'er, ere, heir (in some US pronunciations)
• Homophone: err (in some US pronunciations)

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
   • 1913, The Inland printer:

     "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]"

2. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
   • 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.

3. (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
4. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
5. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
6. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
7. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
8. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.

• (state of being wrong): wrength
• (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
• See also Thesaurus:error

• error-free, errorfree
• error-prone
• error-ridden

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

1. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

   The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.

   Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.

   This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.

2. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.

   The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.

3. (nonstandard) To err.
   • 1993 December, Arie Kaufman (editor), Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC

     Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.

   • 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon

     By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.

   • 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing

     Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully

   • 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing

     Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...

• err

• error out

• error on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• unerring

From Latin error.

error m (plural errores)

1. error

error m (plural errors)

1. error

error m (plural errores)

1. Alternative form of erro

From erro (“I err, I stray”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ror/, [ˈɛr.rɔr]

error m (genitive errōris); third declension

1. wandering
2. wavering, uncertainty
3. error, mistake, delusion
4. solecism

Third declension.

error

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of errō

• English: error
• French: erreur
• Romanian: eroare
• Spanish: error

• error in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• error in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• error in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• error in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
    
  • to be mistaken: in errore versari
    
  • to be in gross error, seriously misled: magno errore teneri
    
  • to be in gross error, seriously misled: in magno errore versari
    
  • to fall into error: erroribus implicari (Tusc. 4. 27. 58)
    
  • to take a false step: per errorem labi, or simply labi
    
  • to lead a person into error: aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere
    
  • to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
    
  • to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
    
  • to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem tollere
    
  • to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem amputare et circumcīdere
    
  • to totally eradicate false principles: errorem stirpitus extrahere
    
  • to amend, correct one's mistake: errorem deponere, corrigere
    
  • to undeceive a person: alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere
    
  • (ambiguous) erroneous opinion: opinionis error
    
  • (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
    

From Latin error.

• IPA^(key): [eˈroɾ]

error m (plural errores)

1. error

• equivocación f
• yerro m

• errar