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Erroneous vs Errored - What's the difference?

erroneous | errored |

As adjectives the difference between erroneous and errored

is that erroneous is containing an error; inaccurate while errored is containing one or more errors; faulty.

As a verb errored is

past tense of error.

erroneous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Containing an error; inaccurate.
  • * His answer to the sum was erroneous .
  • Derived from an error.
  • * His conclusion was erroneous as it was based on a false assumption.
  • Mistaken.
  • * His choice at the line-up was erroneous as he had only seen the mugger for an instant.
  • (legal) signifies a deviation from the requirements of the law, but does not connote a lack of legal authority, and is thus distinguished from illegal.
  • * If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously .

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "erroneous" is often applied: impression, assumption, belief, conclusion, statement, idea, data, view, opinion, judgment, notion, decision, interpretation, diagnosis, conception, theory, reading, instruction, ruling, assessment, doctrine, advice, value, application, thinking, perception, principle, concept, action, description, record, determination, teaching, inference, premise, conviction, reasoning, argument, exclusion, calculation, inclusion, treatment, deductions, analysis.

    Synonyms

    * (containing an error) inaccurate, incorrect, wrong * (derived from an error) fallacious, false, faulty, flawed * (mistaken) mistaken, wrong *

    Derived terms

    * erroneously * erroneousness

    See also

    * fallacious

    errored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (error)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (telecommunications) Containing one or more errors; faulty.
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  • * 2004 , Roger L. Freeman, Telecommunication System Engineering , John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0471451339 , Page 347
    • An errored second is any one-second interval containing at least one bit error.
  • * 2004 , Vivek Alwayn, Optical Network Design and Implementation , Cisco Press, ISBN 1587051052, Page 38
    • [definition:] Errored block— A block in which one or more bits are in error.
  • * 2006 , Jie Han; Tong ji da xue; Jian-Hua Yin; David White; Guoming Lin, Advances in Earth Structures: Research to Practice : Proceedings of Sessions ... , American Society of Civil Engineers, ISBN 0784408637, Page 91,
    • the least-errored neural network topological structure and the optimum rheology parameters were obtained using a genetic algorithm

    Antonyms

    * (containing one or more errors) error-free, errorless

    Anagrams

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