error

noun

1. 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

2. 2

   (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

3. 3

   inadvertent incorrectness

4. 4

   departure from what is ethically acceptable

5. 5

   a misconception resulting from incorrect information

6. 6

   part of a statement that is not correct

   the book was full of errors

7. 7

   (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer