Error
Error , noun
[Old French error, errur, French erreur, Latin error, from errare to err. See Err.]
1.
A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obsolete]
The rest of his journey, his error by sea.
2.
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.
3.
A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired.
4.
A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. — Bible (KJV) - Psalm xix. 12
5.
(Mathematics) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
6.
(a) (Mensuration) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
(b)
(Mensuration) 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.
7.
(Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
8.
(Baseball) 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.
Collocations (3)
Law of error or Law of frequency of error (Mensuration) , the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity.
Writ of error (Law) , an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court. — Bouvier. Burrill