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- typographical errorsplural of typographical error: A mistake made during the process of typing, especially one caused by a slip of the fingers.
- standard errorsplural of standard error: A measure of how likely a mean of means is to be wrong. It is the standard deviation of the sample sizes in each to the sample means.
- comedy of errorsA comedy in which the humour is due to misinterpretations, mistaken identity, etc.
- Spelling errors
- forced errorsplural of forced error: An error caused by an opponent's good play
- trials and errorsplural of trial and error: The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until success is attained.
- measurement errorsplural of measurement error: The difference between a measured value of a quantity and its true value.
- syntax errorsplural of syntax error: An error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.
- round-off errorsplural of round-off error: The difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic.
- type I errorsplural of type I error: Rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is true.
- type II errorsplural of type II error: Accepting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false.
- category errorsplural of category error: A semantic or ontological error by which a property (or category) is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.
- errors outthird-person singular simple present indicative of error out: To fail with an error.
- firm errorsplural of firm error: A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and remains wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage the equipment's hardware.
- hard errorsplural of hard error: A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's hardware (for instance, from a latch-up).
- non-errorsplural of non-error: Something that is not an error.
- soft errorsplural of soft error: A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.
- stop errorsplural of stop error: An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.
- beta errorsplural of beta error: type II error
- off-by-one errorsplural of off-by-one error: A logic error where a value, typically the number of iterations of a loop, is specified incorrectly, being either 1 less or 1 more than it should be.
- rounding errorsplural of rounding error: The difference between the result of a calculation using exact arithmetic and finite-precision, rounded arithmetic.
- alpha errorsplural of alpha error: type I error
- relative errorsplural of relative error: The absolute value of the ratio of the absolute error to the actual value.
- transmission errorsplural of transmission error: A textual discrepancy between a facsimile and its source which arises due to a copyist's perception or reproduction of the text differing from the text as originally produced, generally as a mistake or due to …
- logic errorsplural of logic error: a case in which a programmer writes viable code that however produces undesired results
Compound words 1
- suberrorsplural of suberror: A lesser error making up part of a greater error.