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error - technical definition
- The discrepancy between a computed, estimated, or measured value or condition and that which is true, specified, expected, or theoretically correct.
- In a computer, a discrepancy in a calculation, in a file, or in the execution of a program.
- In telecommunications, the discrepancy between data as transmitted and data as received. See also error control.
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