type of error

collocation in English

meaningsoftypeanderror

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type
noun
uk
/taɪp/
us
/taɪp/
a particular group of people or things that share similar characteristics and form a smaller division of a ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈer.ər/
us
/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition oftypeanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftype of error

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Within each of these six error categories, there are details of the exacttypeoferror.
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Onetypeoferrorhas specific implications for the very topic of this volume, namely usage in a second or foreign language.
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As it turns out, this is a very interestingtypeoferror.
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However, the changes of making eachtypeoferrorare inversely related to each other.
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Splitting true full-sibling families into multiple groups represents a secondtypeoferrorin pedigree reconstruction.
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However, thistypeoferrormay come about because the acquisition of case and gender is, to some extent, intertwined.
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The second concernstypeoferrormade when article use was obligatory.
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The degree of confidence required by a regulatory system to avoid eithertypeoferroris clearly a crucial policy choice.
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A participant could be categorized as making only onetypeoferrorwithin a trial.
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The biases that heuristics induce are not constant errors - thetypeoferrorthat a friendly scale makes in understating all weights.
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Predicting whether thistypeoferrorwill happen in the outputs for a given path is easy.
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There is no need to establish whichtypeoferroris present prior to correcting it.
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Thistypeoferrorcan mean that the patient will receive a significantly different dose than prescribed.
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The sametypeoferrorshould occur at a particular point in syntactic development, with all the pronouns the child produces.
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Thistypeoferror-proneness is inevitable because we are looking at rare events, where statistical tagging is not performing at its best.
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Thistypeoferrorcan be detected if there is another obstacle between the sensor and the "perceived" segment, proving the unlikelihood of the measurement.
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Thus, whereas many errors in planning can be corrected on-line, assuming an intact control system, a certaintypeoferrormay affect planning as well.
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That is, regulatory systems that reduce onetypeoferrorwill necessarily increase the chance of making the othertypeoferror.
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Thistypeoferroronly occurred in the word order revision.
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The secondtypeoferrorinvolves deeply felt coordinative "needs" that are in fact illusory.
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