What's the difference between error and misplay?

Error


Definition:

  • (n.) A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
  • (n.) A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
  • (n.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
  • (n.) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
  • (3) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
  • (4) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (5) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
  • (6) With feedback, the rate of decrease in error over sessions was similiar for both levels of IQ.
  • (7) Infidelity of replication is a hallmark of the HIV-1 RT, and replication errors by the enzyme on RNA and DNA templates are discussed.
  • (8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (9) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
  • (10) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
  • (11) Learning disabled children made more errors at all ages than normal children.
  • (12) Furthermore, Methylene Blue contamination of the standard stain increased the rate of error in image analysis of white blood cell nuclei due to variations of staining intensity.
  • (13) This is an inborn error of the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of fatty acids.
  • (14) Frequently, errors are encountered in the comparison of surgical versus clinical staging.
  • (15) We assume that the fragments have been assembled and address the problem of determining the degree to which the reconstructed sequence is free from errors, i.e., its accuracy.
  • (16) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (17) Essien, by the way, has been decent so far, other than the error just mentioned.
  • (18) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
  • (19) The results agreed well with those determined by a conventional method; moreover, the standard error of the mean was lower for the new method.
  • (20) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.

Misplay


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