From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Error \Er"ror\, noun [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See {Err}.]
1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.]
The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B. Jonson.
2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired. --Bancroft.
4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12.
5. (Math.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
6. (Mensuration) (a) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. (b) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called {residual error}.
7. (Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
8. (Baseball) A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
{Law of error}, or {Law of frequency of error} (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity.
{Probable error}. (Mensuration) See under {Probable}.
{Writ of error} (Law), an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court. --Bouvier. Burrill.
Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See {Blunder}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: {mistake}, {fault}]
2: inadvertent incorrectness [syn: {erroneousness}]
3: a misconception resulting from incorrect information [syn: {erroneous belief}]
4: (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed [syn: {misplay}]
5: departure from what is ethically acceptable [syn: {wrongdoing}]
6: (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer [syn: {computer error}]
7: part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors" [syn: {mistake}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
260 Moby Thesaurus words for "error": ALGOL, Albigensianism, Arianism, COBOL, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, FORTRAN, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism, abomination, abuse of terms, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, angular data, antinomianism, assembler, at fault, atrocity, bad, bad job, bevue, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, bloomer, blooper, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, breach, bug, bull, bungle, byte, catachresis, clanger, clerical error, clumsy performance, command pulses, commands, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, contorting, control signals, controlled quantity, correcting signals, corrigendum, crime, crime against humanity, data, deadly sin, delinquency, delusion, dereliction, disgrace, distortion, eisegesis, emanatism, enormity, erratum, erroneously, erroneousness, error in judgment, error signals, etourderie, evil, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, false doctrine, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fault, faute, faux pas, feedback pulses, feedback signals, felony, film data, flagitiousness, flaw, flub, fluff, foozle, foul-up, fumble, gaffe, garbling, gaucherie, genocide, gloss, goof, guilty act, hash, heavy sin, heresy, hexadecimal system, howler, human error, hylotheism, illusion, impropriety, in error, inaccuracy, incorrect, incorrectly, indecorum, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infamy, information, iniquity, injudiciousness, injury, injustice, input data, input quantity, instructions, knavery, lapse, literal, machine language, malefaction, malentendu, malfeasance, malobservation, malum, mess, message, minor wrong, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, miscomputation, misconception, misconduct, misconjecture, misconstruction, miscount, miscue, misdeal, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, misstep, mistake, mistaken, mistakenly, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, misvaluation, mortal sin, muff, multiple messages, near-miss, noise, nonfeasance, numeric data, obliquity, octal system, off day, offense, omission, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, outrage, oversight, pantheism, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, play, polar data, poor judgment, punch-card data, random data, rectangular data, reference quantity, reprobacy, rock, ruly English, sad work, scandal, screamer, shame, signals, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, single messages, skewed judgment, slip, slipup, solecism, squeezing, stumble, tort, torturing, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, typo, typographical error, unorganized data, untruth, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, visible-speech data, wickedness, wrenching, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongdoing
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
1. A discrepancy between a computed, observed, or measured value or condition and the true, specified, or theoretically correct value or condition. 2. A mental mistake made by a programmer that may result in a program {fault}. 3. (verb) What a program does when it stops as result of a programming error. (2000-03-28)
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