error

noun

1. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention"he made a bad mistake"
2. inadvertent incorrectness
3. a misconception resulting from incorrect information
4. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
5. departure from what is ethically acceptable
6. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
7. part of a statement that is not correct"the book was full of errors"