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A wandering; a roving or irregular course. |
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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. |
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A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false
notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. |
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A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression;
iniquity; fault. |
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The difference between the approximate result and the true
result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. |
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The difference between an observed value and the true value
of a quantity. |
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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. |
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A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters
of law or of fact. |
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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. |
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