· a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
Hypernym(s): nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
· inadvertent incorrectness
Synonym(s): erroneousness
Hypernym(s): incorrectness, wrongness
· a misconception resulting from incorrect information
Synonym(s): erroneous_belief
Hypernym(s): misconception
· (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
Synonym(s): misplay
Hypernym(s): failure
· departure from what is ethically acceptable
Synonym(s): wrongdoing
· (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
Synonym(s): computer_error
Hypernym(s): happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural_event
· part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
Synonym(s): mistake
Hypernym(s): misstatement