error

Meanings

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
  • "she was quick to point out my errors"
• inadvertent incorrectness
• a misconception resulting from incorrect information
• (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
• departure from what is ethically acceptable
• (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
• part of a statement that is not correct
  • "the book was full of errors"

Synonyms

computer error, erroneous belief, erroneousness, fault, misplay, mistake, wrongdoing