Error

·noun A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

II. Error ·noun The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.

III. Error ·noun A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.

IV. Error ·noun A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

V. Error ·noun A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.

VI. Error ·noun The difference between the approximate result and the true result;

— used particularly in the rule of double position.

VII. Error ·noun 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.

VIII. Error ·noun 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.

IX. Error ·noun 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.