errorous
adjEtymology From error + -ous.
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Nonstandard Synonym of erroneous.
- He is preoccupied perhaps with other matters. If so the act exhibits aberration, an unaccountable deviation from uniform law or procedure. The act is errorous, the thought, opinion, conclusion is erroneous, errorful in so far as it is recognized by the critic as falling short of the standard employed.[1914, The Pedagogical Seminary, page 514:
- Even to this day, tradition in Cornwall states that sailors, and soldiers from the Armanda wrecks survived in some numbers, that they swam ashore, settled down in the west country and married English women leaving behind a recognisable strain of dark skinned descendants, which still survive to this day. This legend must be errorous.1972, William Hobart Sebastian, The Chronicle of a Southern Family, page 10:
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- An inactive front segment was used to prevent the collapse of the resistive film on the front surface of the first active segment of the electrode which would lead to errorous results.1980, Electrochemical Society, Extended Abstracts, page 253:
- This calibrates the oscilloscope and errorous measurements will occur if it is changed during the analysis of the square wave.1983, Kenneth W. Johnson, Willard C. Walker, John D. Cutnell, Laboratory Manual: the Science of Hi-fidelity, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 49:
- He knows - at least qualitatively - the function of the components, and their behaviour in correct and errorous states.1990, International Federation of Automatic Control, Proceedings of the Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, page 14:
- The world averages are based upon relatively old data and thus more likely to be errorous.1992, Atmospheric Chemistry: Papers from the 9th World Clean Air Congress, Towards the Year 2000--critical Issues in the Global Environment, Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 30-September 4, 1992: