·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.