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Error and Wrongly

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.
  • A misconception resulting from incorrect information.
  • Baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed.
  • Departure from what is ethically acceptable.
  • Computer science. ( the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer)
  • Part of a statement that is not correct.
    • usage: "the book was full of errors"

Error is a mistake in terms of quantity, type of order, side of market (purchase or sale), security, or other condition of a trade.

adverb

  • Without justice or fairness. "wouldst not play false and yet would wrongly win- Shakespeare
  • In an inaccurate manner.
    • usage: "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong"
(adv.) In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.