nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goal

blot, smirch, smear, stain, spot - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

mix-up, confusion - a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"

incursion - the mistake of incurring liability or blame

miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning - a mistake in calculating

distortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

parapraxis, slip-up, miscue, slip - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

lapse, oversight - a mistake resulting from inattention

omission, skip - a mistake resulting from neglect

blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, bloomer - an embarrassing mistake

balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled

betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity, foolishness - a stupid mistake

renege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

incorrectness, wrongness - the quality of not conforming to fact or truth

deviation - the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances

misconception - an incorrect conception

failure - an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test"

baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"

evilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

happening, natural event, occurrence - an event that happens

hardware error - error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer

programming error, software error - error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result

algorithm error - error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result

misstatement - a statement that contains a mistake

corrigendum - a printer's error; to be corrected

erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind