error
• noun 1 a mistake. 2 the state of being wrong in conduct or judgement. 3 technical a measure of the estimated difference between the observed or calculated value of a quantity and its true value. — PHRASES see the error of one’s ways acknowledge one’s wrongdoing. — ORIGIN Latin, from errare ‘to stray, err’.
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