"Error" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 错误 | cuò wù | mistaken / false / wrong / error / mistake / CL:個|个[ge4] |   |
| 故障 | gù zhàng | malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software) | |
| 误差 | wù chā | difference / error / inaccuracy | |
| 过失 | guò shī | error / fault / (law) negligence / delinquency | |
| 出错 | chū cuò | to make a mistake / error | |
| 差错 | chā cuò | mistake / slip-up / fault / error / accident / mishap | |
| 谬误 | miù wù | error / mistaken idea / falsehood | |
| 病句 | bìng jù | defective sentence / error (of grammar or logic) | |
| 差池 | chā chí | mistake / error / mishap | |
| 误 |  wù | mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly | |
| 纰 | pī | error / carelessness / spoiled silk | |
| 蹉 | cuō | to error / to slip / to miss / to err | |
| 眚 | shěng | cataract of the eye / error | |
| 舛误 | chuǎn wù | error / mistake | |
| 不韪 | bù wěi | fault / error | |
| 差讹 | chā é | error / mistake | |
| 差谬 | chà miù | error | |
| 纰缪 | pī miù | error / mistake | |
| 讹谬 | é miù | error / mistake | |
| 谬种 | miù zhǒng | error / fallacy / misconception / scoundrel / You swine! | |
| 迷误 | mí wù | mistake / error / to mislead / to lead astray | |
| 违失 | wéi shī | fault / mistake / shortcoming / error / misconduct | |
| 误区 | wù qū | mistaken ideas / misconceptions / the error of one's ways | |
| 做错 | zuò cuò | to make an error | |
| 认错 | rèn cuò | to admit an error / to acknowledge one's mistake | |
| 纠错 | jiū cuò | to correct an error | |
| 扣分 | kòu fēn | to deduct marks (when grading school work) / to have marks deducted / penalty points / to lose points for a penalty or error | |
| 穿帮 | chuān bāng | (TV or movie) blooper / continuity error / (theater) to flub one's lines / unintended exposure of a body part / to be exposed (of a scheme or trick) / to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue / to blow one's cover | |
| 硬伤 | yìng shāng | injury / trauma / (fig.) glaring error / flaw / shortcoming | |
| 改错 | gǎi cuò | to correct an error | |
| 误判 | wù pàn | to misjudge / error of judgment / incorrect ruling / miscarriage of justice | |
| 走眼 | zǒu yǎn | a mistake / an oversight / an error of judgment | |
| 将错就错 | jiāng cuò jiù cuò | lit. if it's wrong, it's wrong (idiom) / to make the best after a mistake / to accept an error and adapt to it / to muddle through | |
| 纠偏 | jiū piān | to correct an error | |
| 留余地 | liú yú dì | to leave room to maneuver / to leave a margin for error | |
| 试错 | shì cuò | trial and error (abbr. for 嘗試錯誤法|尝试错误法[chang2 shi4 cuo4 wu4 fa3]) / to experiment (to see what works and what doesn't) | |
| 循环论证 | xún huán lùn zhèng | circular argument / logical error consisting of begging the question / Latin: petitio principii | |
| 朝闻夕改 | zhāo wén xī gǎi | lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening / to correct an error very quickly (idiom) | |
| 积非成是 | jī fēi chéng shì | a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom) / a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth | |
| 翻然悔悟 | fān rán huǐ wù | to see the error of one's ways / to make a clean break with one's past | |
| 冒险主义 | mào xiǎn zhǔ yì | adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s) | |
| 类比错误 | lèi bǐ cuò wù | analogy error | |
| 声旁错误 | shēng páng cuò wù | phonological error | |
| 出错信息 | chū cuò xìn xī | error message (computing) | |
| 大不韪 | dà bù wěi | great error / heinous crime | |
| 宽打窄用 | kuān dǎ zhǎi yòng | to give oneself leeway (idiom) / to allow room for error | |
| 差之毫厘，谬以千里 | chā zhī háo lí , miù yǐ qiān lǐ | the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile | |
| 拼写错误 | pīn xiě cuò wù | spelling mistake / written error | |
| 旧病复发 | jiù bìng fù fā | old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem | |
| 讹字 | é zì | erroneous character / typographical error | |
| 误看 | wù kàn | a mistake / an oversight / an error of judgment | |
| 转圜余地 | zhuǎn huán yú dì | to have room to save a situation / margin for error (idiom) | |
| 运行时错误 | yùn xíng shí cuò wù | run-time error (in computing) | |
| 逻辑错误 | luó ji cuò wù | logical error | |
| 错漏 | cuò lòu | error and negligence | |
| 误差传播 | propagation of errors / error propagation | | |
| 绝对误差 | jué duì wù chā | absolute error | |
| 随机误差 | suí jī wù chā | random error | |
| 系统误差 | xì tǒng wù chā | systematic error / bias | |
| I型误差 | type I error | | |
| II型误差 | type II error | | |
| 圆误差概率 | circular error probable | | |
| 误差限 | limits of error | | |
| 最大容许误差 | maximum tolerable error | | |
| 误差平衡表 | error budget | | |
| 垂直定位误差 | vertical positioning error / vertical error | | |
| 时钟误差 | clock error / jitter | | |
| 标准误差 | standard error / root mean square error / RMS error | | |
| 均方根误差 | standard error / root mean square error / RMS error | | |
| 恒定深度误差 | constant depth error / constant error | | |
| 恒定误差 | constant depth error / constant error | | |
| 闭合差 | error of closure | | |
| 误差椭圆 | error ellipse | | |
| 深度相关误差 | depth-dependent error | | |
| 深度误差 | depth error | | |
| 传播误差总量 | total propagated error / total propagation error | | |
| 水平定位误差 | horizontal positioning error | | |
| 位置误差 | position error / positioning error / positional error | | |
| 定位误差 | position error / positioning error / positional error | | |
| 投射误差 | delivery error | | |
| 仪器误差 | instrument error | | |
| 总误差 | total error | | |
| 相对误差 | relative error | | |
| 误差模型 | error model | | |
| 误差边缘 | margin of error | | |
| 误差值 | magnitude of error | | |
| 尝试错误 | cháng shì cuò wù | to proceed by trial and error / to learn by making mistakes | |
| 讹误 | é wù | error in a text / text corruption | |
| 乌龙指 | wū lóng zhǐ | fat finger error (finance) | |
| 看走眼 | kàn zǒu yǎn | to make an error of judgment / to be taken in | |
| 一棍子打死 | yī gùn zi dǎ sǐ | to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error | |
| 错票 | cuò piào | error note (i.e. misprinted banknote) | |
| 报错 | bào cuò | to report an error / to give wrong information | |
| 误缮 | wù shàn | to miswrite (while copying written material) / to transcribe incorrectly / to make a clerical error | |
