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Irrtum — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • error noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
  • misapprehension noun A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception, or misunderstanding.
  • mistake noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.

Senses

Irrtum is used for these senses in English:

  • error (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
  • error (appellate, _, legal, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
  • hamartia (Greek, _, drama) The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
  • misapprehension A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.
  • mistake An error.

error — full definition

  1. noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
  2. noun A malfunction or fault reported by a machine or computer program.
  3. noun The difference between a measured or calculated value and the true or correct value.

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