From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error, infinitive of errō ("to wander, to err").

• (British) enPR: ĕrʹə(r); IPA: /ˈɛɹ.ə(ɹ)/
  • IPA: /ˈeɹ.ɚ/, /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/, ;, /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/, ;, /ɛɚ/

error

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
2. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
3. (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
4. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
5. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
6. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
7. (appellate legal, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
8. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
9. (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.

• (state of being wrong) wrength
• (a mistake) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
• See also Thesaurus:error

• French: erreur
• German: Fehler
• Italian: errore, sbaglio
• Portuguese: erro
• Russian: оши́бка
• Spanish: error, yerro

• Portuguese: erro

• French: erreur
• German: Fehler
• Italian: errore
• Portuguese: erro
• Russian: погре́шность
• Spanish: error

• Italian: errore

• French: vice
• German: Irrtum
• Italian: vizio

• French: erreur
• Italian: errore
• Portuguese: erro
• Spanish: error

error (errors, present participle erroring; simple past and past participle errored)

1. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

   The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.

   Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.

   This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.

2. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.

   The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.

3. (nonstandard) To err.
   • 1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:

     Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.

   • 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon:

     By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.

• err

• French: être en erreur
• German: aussteigen (coll.), abbrechen
• Italian: mostrare un errore, mostrare errori
• Portuguese: dar erro

• French: (informal) planter, (colloquial) foirer
• German: fehlschlagen, misslingen
• Italian: causare un errore, contenere un errore, causare errori, contenere errori