noun
- A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
- usage: "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
- Inadvertent incorrectness.
- synonyms: erroneousness
- A misconception resulting from incorrect information.
- synonyms: erroneous belief
- Baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed.
- synonyms: misplay
- Departure from what is ethically acceptable.
- synonyms: wrongdoing
- Computer science. ( the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer)
- synonyms: computer error
- Part of a statement that is not correct.
- usage: "the book was full of errors"
- synonyms: mistake