(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.