n.
1.a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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
Idiom of the Day
a race against time
a rush to beat a deadline
It was a race against time to rescue the miners who were trapped in the mine.