error
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- 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
- The margin of error is higher for subgroups.