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