error

error
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W2S2 [ˈerə US ˈerər] n
[Date: 1200-1300; : Old French; Origin: errour, from Latin error, from errare; ERR]
1.) [U and C]
a mistake
error in
▪ There must be an error in our calculations.
make/commit an error
▪ The government has committed a serious error.
serious/grave/fatal error
▪ I realized I had made a fatal error.
computer/driver etc error
▪ The bill was sent to the wrong person because of a computer error.
▪ The accident was caused by human error (=a mistake by a person) .
2.)
a mistake when you are working on a computer, which means that the computer program cannot do what you want it to do
▪ An error message .
3.) error of judgment
a mistake in the way that you examine a situation and decide what to do
▪ The decision to expand the company was an error of judgement.
4.) be in error
to have made a mistake, especially when making an official decision
▪ The doctor has admitted that he was in error.
5.) do sth in error
if you do something in error, you do it by mistake
▪ The wrong man was arrested in error.
6.) see the error of your ways
literary to realize that you have been behaving badly and decide to stop
→trial and error at ↑trial1 (4)

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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