errand
- n a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission
erratum
- n a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
erroneous belief
- n a misconception resulting from incorrect information
error
- n a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
she was quick to point out my errors - n inadvertent incorrectness
- n a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- n (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- n departure from what is ethically acceptable
- n (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- n part of a statement that is not correct
the book was full of errors
error correction code
- n (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors