erratum
/ɛˈrɑːtəm
/noun (plural errata /ɛˈrɑːtə/)
1An error in printing or writing.The publisher has inserted an erratum slip noting three errors in dates and explaining that a contrite Hoban ‘writes at all hours of the day and night, sometimes when a little the worse for wear’....
- Mr. Arnold later published an erratum sheet correcting the error.
- The erratum can result in invalid data being delivered to a PCI master and only occurs in 850/860 systems due to ‘unique architectural interactions’ between the MCH and the ICH2.
1.1 (errata) A list of corrected errors appended to a book or published in a subsequent issue of a journal.Periodicals would use errata sections to correct some of the errors, and letters to the editor could be used to debate a previous article's contentions and possibly set the record straight....
- In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
- It must have been extremely frustrating for the authors to have to include an errata slip correcting errors in two of the tables.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin, 'error', neuter past participle of errare 'err'.
Rhymes
- middleskot
- middle space
- middle state
- middlestead
- Middle Stone Age
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- Middle Temple
- middle term
- Middleton, Thomas
- Middletown
- Middletowner
- middle vein
- middleveld
- middle wall
- middleware
- middle watch
- middle-water
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- Middle West
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- Middle White
- middlewoman
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- middle world