0 a mistake:
1 a mistake, esp. in a way that can be discovered as wrong, or the making of such mistakes:
2 something done or written by accident that is not correct, not accurate, or does not give the right result:
make/introduce an error Can I amend my VAT return online if I've made an error?
contain/have errors The text has numerous errors, but none are particularly significant.
error in sth An error in accounting led to this figure appearing in the 'profit' column.
accounting/administrative/clerical error Due to an administrative error, the payment went to the wrong bank account.
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3 a situation in which something goes wrong in a computer program, or a message that this has happened:
Hospital authorities admitted that a tragic error had taken place.
The reason for the disaster was engine failure, not human error.
As a result, the assembly errors of a modular robot are usually larger than those of a robot having fixed configuration.
The two last methods showed the smallest errors when no intermediate states were taken into account.
Further analysis examined three types of possible errors at each level of the task.
