Error Sentence Examples

Lana had never seen this error message before.

She erased the error message.

This omission is sometimes believed to be an error.

Though hibernating, the Tesla generator displayed no error messages.

To avoid such error Dawes used double wires, not spider webs, placing the image of the star symmetrically between these wires, as in fig.

In 1890 he tells us how a grievous error had been committed in one of the first steps, and pathetically adds, "My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since."

The only system error is … five sensors were tripped when the field was disengaged, she murmured with a frown.

Through trial and error, you'll create the perfect web page design.

His shrewd sense of political expediency and his loyalty to constitutional principles saved .him from the error of obstructing the advent and driving into an aati-dynastic attitude politicians who had succeeded in winning popular favor.

Modern writers have perpetuated the error that the Cassiterides were definite spots, and have made many attempts to identify them.

Differences of opinion there must be; but "heresy is not an error of the understanding but an error of the will."

It figured in astronomical tables until the time of Copernicus, but is now known to have no foundation in fact, being based on an error in Ptolemy's determination of precession.

We are sometimes told that the councils simply denied error after error, affirming little or nothing.

He muttered some lame excuse, feigning making an error.

Those whose stubborn persistence in error survived all these inducements to repent were sent into exile.

Excluded from parliament by the fatal error of his youth, he was compelled to resort to indirect means of working out his plans by influencing public men.

Constant use, increased friction (m o r e especially at high speeds), and damage to the rotator will alter an ascertained log error; head or following seas, strong winds, currents and tidal streams also FIG.

They are in error who hold the opinion that the negligence and bad husbandry of the former owner is good for his successor.

The mass becomes unduly sanguine or weakly surrenders to panic. Hence the law of error does not apply, and speculation by the public may unsteady prices.

Who can still affirm that all which in this realm appears as striking rests only on deception and error?

Partly by contact with the Byzantines, partly by conflict with the Mahommedans, the Franks learned new methods 1 Authors like Heeren (Versuch einer Entwickelung der Folgen der Kreuzziige) and Michaud (in the last volume of his Histoire des croisades) fall into the error of assigning all things to the Crusades.

This can be then compared with the observed scale reading and the error of the ammeter noted.'

He intended fully to restrain within legal bounds the opposition which the excise on domestic spirits had provoked, but he made the serious mistake of not allowing sufficiently for the character of the backwoods population When legal resistance developed into insurrection, Gallatin did his best to retrieve his error and prevent open war.

This view was modified by Liebig, who regarded ether as ethyl oxide, and alcohol as the hydrate of ethyl oxide; here, however, he was in error, for he attributed to alcohol a molecular weight double its true value.

Such an error could never have arisen had the old compilers of maps taken the trouble to plan Marco Polo's routes.

The is-i is omitted by a through a simple scribal error.

As an exponent of Plato he suffered from the fatal error of confounding Plato with the later Platonists.

The true site can be determined, if at all, by excavation only; identifications based on mere outward similarity of names have always been fruitful sources of error.

The latest result is 299,860 kilometres per second, with a probable error of perhaps 30 kilometres - that is, about the ten-thousandth part of the quantity itself.

Unfortunately these eclipses are not sudden but slowly changing phenomena, so that they cannot be observed without an error of at least several seconds, and not infrequently important fractions of a minute.

As the entire time required for light to pass over the radius of the earth's orbit is only about 500 seconds, this error is fatal to the method.

In each case the results of the observations may be systematically in error, not only from the uncertain diameter of the moon, but in a still greater degree from the varying effect of irradiation and the personal equation of the observers.

Curves of magnetization (which express the relation of I to H) have a close resemblance to those of induction; and, indeed, since B = H+47r1, and 47rI (except in extreme fields) greatly exceeds H in numerical value, we may generally, without serious error, put I = B /47r, and transform curves of induction into curves of magnetization by merely altering the scale to which the ordinates are referred.

Soc., 1886, 40, 495 or by reversals - the source of error due to the transverse cut thus being avoided.

With this arrangement it is possible to find the actual value of the magnetizing force, corrected for the effects of joints and other sources of error.

The values assigned to H were calculated from H= 2ni/r, and ranged from 3.9 to 585, but inasmuch as no account was taken of any 2 Since in most practicable experiments H 2 is negligible in comparison with B 2, the force may be taken as B 2 /87r without sensible= error.

Thus the magnetization which the sample of Swedish iron received in a field of 1490 was not increased (beyond the limits of experimental error) when the intensity of the field was multiplied more than thirteen-fold, though the induction was nearly doubled.

Bidwell," who, adopting special precautions against sources of error by which former work was probably affected, measured the changes of thermo-electric force for iron, steel, nickel and cobalt produced by magnetic fields up to I Soo units.

In the case of iron and nickel it was found that, when correction was made for mechanical stress due to magnetization, magnetic change of thermo-electric force was, within the limits of experimental error, proportional to magnetic change of length.

The results of experiments as to the effect of magnetization were for long discordant and inconclusive, sufficient care not having been taken to avoid sources of error, while the effects of hysteresis were altogether disregarded.

The confusion has arisen through a textual error in an early edition of Ptolemy's Geography.

Though but faintly pictured in the Vedic hymns, he is there invoked with Ormazd, or Ahuramazda, the god of the sky, and is clearly a divinity of light, the protector of truth and the enemy of error and falsehood.

In the porch of the church is the most interesting of the extant old tombs, namely, the recumbent effigy of Alexander Stewart, the Wolf of Badenoch (1 3431405; the inscription refers his death to 1394, but this is said to be an error).

The Schoolmen had no historical sense and little historical information; hence they fell into one error after another on the essentials in the rite of ordination.

The hypostatizing of abstractions is the error against which Occam is continually fighting.

But, as we have seen, such an error of phase causes no sensible deterioration in the definition; so that from this point onwards the lens is useless, as only improving an image already sensibly as perfect as the aperture admits of.

His Persian campaign was doubtless an error, but was due in part to a desire to find occupation, distant if possible, for his janissaries, who were always prone to turbulence while inactive at the capital.

Twenty years later, the word "dismissed" (dimittantur) became the subject of controversy, some maintaining that it amounted to a direct approval, others that it was purely negative and did not imply that the books were free from error.

He was convicted (February 1844) after the trials that followed, but they were not good specimens of equal justice, and the sentence of imprisonment for a year and a fine of £2000 was reversed on a writ of error by the House of Lords (September 1844), and he and his colleagues were again free.

Indeed, the sophists generally had a special predisposition to error of this sort, not only because sophistry was from the beginning a substitute for the pursuit of truth, but also because the successful professor, travelling from city to city, or settling abroad, could take no part in public affairs, and thus was not at every step reminded of the importance of the " material " element of exposition and reasoning.

Finding in the cultivation of " virtue " or " excellence " a substitute for the pursuit of scientific truth, and in disputation the sole means by which " virtue " or " excellence " could be attained, he resembled at once the sophists of culture and the sophists of eristic. But, inasmuch as the " virtue " or " excellence " which he sought was that of the man rather than that of the official, while the disputation which he practised had for its aim, not victory, but the elimination of error, the differences which separated him from the sophists of culture and the sophists of eristic were only less considerable than the resemblances which he bore to both; and further, though his whole time and attention were bestowed upon the education of young Athenians, his theory of the relations of teacher and pupil differed from that of the recognized professors of education, inasmuch as the taking of fees seemed to him to entail a base surrender of the teacher's independence.

While he emphasizes in the later sophists the consequences of the fundamental error of sophistry - its indifference to truth - he does honour to the genius and the originality of the leaders of the movement.

The peculiar form of the tube is eminently suited for rigid preservation of the relative parallelism of the axes of the two telescopes, so that,;i the image of a certain selected star is retained on the intersection of two wires of the micrometer, by means of the driving clock, aided by small corrections given by the observer in right ascension and declination (required on account of irregularity in the clock movement, error in astronomical adjustment of the polar axis, or changes in the star's apparent place produced by refraction), the image of a star will continue on the same spot of the photographic film during the whole time of exposure.

Two levels are hardly likely to have such causes of error arise at exactly corresponding points in their run, and thus two levels furnish an independent control the one on the other.

The form "Jehovah" (q.v.) used in some of the English Versions is an error which arose in the 16th century.

This is an attempt to explain how it came that Christ, though incarnate God, could be in error, e.g.

This method has been very generally recommended, but it is really bad, because, although it diminishes the absolute magnitude of the correction, it greatly increases the uncertainty of it and therefore the probable error of the result.

The accuracy of the work in each case depends principally on the skill and ingenuity of the experimentalist in devising methods of eliminating the various sources of error.

Were Taken To Discuss And Eliminate All The Sources Of Constant Error Which Could Be Foreseen.

This Gives A Series Of Ratios 5/3, 7/5, 9/7, Ii/9, &C., For I, 2, 3, 4, &C., Atoms In The Molecule, Values Which Fall Within The Limits Of Experimental Error In Many Cases.

Very special precautions are required to eliminate instrumental error before we can compare observations, say, of a star on the meridian in winter at 6 p.m.

It cannot be too strongly emphasized that many of these determinations are subject to a large probable error, or even altogether uncertain.

For one or two of the more famous stars such as a Centauri the probable error is less than so oi"; but for others in the list it ranges up to X0.05".

Having regard to the special precautions taken to eliminate systematic error, and to the fact that the stars used were distributed nearly equally over both hemispheres, it is fair to conclude that this is the most accurate determination yet made.

Campbell from the radial motions of 280 stars found the velocity to be 20 kilometres per second with a probable error of 12 km.

Owing to an error in the transmission of an order the Alpine troops who were holding the positions of Cima Undici and Cima Dodici retired before the Austrians attacked, and uncovered the flank of the division, while on the same day (May 25) the attacking forces succeeded in occupying the important position of Corno di Campo Verde (6,815 ft.).

A desperate attack failed to retrieve the error, and Pria Fora remained in possession of the Austrians.

We know that we need to pass from what Spinoza terms experientia y oga,' where imagination with its fragmentary apprehension is liable to error and neither necessity nor impossibility can be predicated, right up to that which fictionem terminat - namely, intellectio.

This product is interpreted as another directed line, forming the fourth term of a proportion, of which the first 1 Strictly speaking, this illustration of Tait's is in error by unity because in our calendar there is no year denominated zero.

They give the following numerical values The error of the formula for water is less than t mm.

The approximate equation of Rankine (23) begins to be I or 2% in error at the boiling-point under atmospheric pressure, owing to the coaggregation of the molecules of the vapour and the variation of the specific heat of the liquid.

The justification of this assumption lies in the fact that the values of c found in this manner, when substituted in equation (25) for the saturation-pressure, give correct results for p within the probable limits of error of Regnault's experiments.

The attack from Tolmino was carried out with skill, speed and resolution, and by a capital error which has never been satisfactorily explained the Italian guns remained silent until too late.

On the other hand our knowledge of Chian Homeridae comes chiefly from the lexicon of Harpocration, where we are told that Acusilaus and Hellanicus said that they were so called from the poet; whereas Seleucus pronounced this to be an error.

The error in the original return generally arises from ignorance.

And even the more moderate believers in the pope's infallibility maintained that it was merely negative, a heaven-sent immunity against falling into error.

He must not simply be immune from error; truth must stream down on his head from heaven, and on his head alone.

But this view was too extreme for the council; the most Pius could hope for was to be declared immune from error, instead of positively inspired.

He acknowledged his error on that head, and made little defence.

The opinion was common at the time, and the error was merely ignorance of the true principles of political economy.

And for the last, I conceived it to be no fault, but therein I desire to be better informed, that I may be twice penitent, once for the fact and again for the error."

Bacon, is the most troublesome kind of error, and has been especially fatal in philosophy.

Lastly, that method of discovery and proof according to which the most general principles are first established, and then intermediate axioms are tried and proved by them, is the parent of error and the course of all science."

It is not surprising that he should detect many flaws, but he never fails co exaggerate an error, and seems sometimes completely to miss the point of what Bacon says.

Experience and observation are the only remedies against prejudice and error.

There are, however, certain cases in which the sources of error above mentioned are reduced to a minimum, and cannot seriously affect the results; such as those of the Jews, the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Moluccas, and the Spaniards in South America.

It is a theory of philosophical truth and error, involving an account of the course of philosophical inquiry and of the supreme object of knowledge.

In this last case, however, the capacity of the electrometer used must be small, otherwise an error is introduced.'

The absence of this error is termed achromatism, and an optical system so corrected is termed achromatic.

A system is said to be " chromatically under-corrected " when it shows the same kind of chromatic error as a thin positive lens, otherwise it is said to be " over-corrected."

If a collective system be corrected for the axis point for a definite wave-length, then, on account of the greater dispersion in the negative components - the flint glasses; - over-correction will arise for the shorter wavelengths (this being the error of the negative components), and under-correction for the longer wave-lengths (the error of crown glass lenses preponderating in the red).

Abbe succeeded in computing microscope objectives free from error of the axis point and satisfying the sine condition for several colours, which therefore, according to his definition, were " aplanatic for several colours "; such systems he termed " apochromatic."

The chief practical use of the simple continued fraction is that by means of it we can obtain rational fractions which approximate to any quantity, and we can also estimate the error of our b4 as a4 b5 approximation.

But he committed the tactical error of appointing a disproportionate number of Jews and Christians as revenue officials, and thus made many enemies among the Mongol nobles, who had him assassinated in 1291 when Arghun was lying fatally ill.

A mockery of popular institutions, under the name of a burgher council, indeed existed; but this was a mere delusion, and must not be confounded with the system of local government by means of district burgher councils which that most able man, Commissioner de Mist, sought to establish during the brief government of the Batavian Republic from 1803 to 1806, when the Dutch nation, convinced and ashamed of the false policy by which they had permitted a mere money-making association to disgrace the Batavian name, and to entail degradation on what might have been a free and prosperous colony, sought to redeem their error by making this country a national colonial possession, instead of a slavish property, to be neglected, oppressed or ruined, as the caprice or avarice of its merchant owners might dictate.

His reckonings by Olympiads are generally wrong, the error arising chiefly from carelessness.

He was really a stoicizing Platonist; and this has led to the error of supposing Varro to have been a professed Stoic. The influence of Antiochus is clearly to be seen in many remains of Varro's writings.

The difficult subject of the classification of bacteria dates ' The difficulties presented by such minute and simple organisms as the Schizomycetes are due partly to the few " characters " which they possess and partly to the dangers of error in manipulating them; it is anything but an easy matter either to trace the whole development of a single form or to recognize with certainty any one stage in the development unless the others are known.

He dwells much more pronouncedly than Herbert on the view, afterwards regarded as a special characteristic of all deists, that much or most error in religion has been invented or knowingly maintained by sagacious men for the easier maintenance of good government, or in the interests of themselves and their class.

The above date he therefore considers to be the date of the erection of this great national monument, within a margin of possible error, on either side, of 200 years.

It became a commonplace to say that he was put to death for an error of judgment.

But this error of thought would be easily concealed from a mind with the rabbinical training of Paul's" (Schmiedel, in Hibbert Journal, 1902, pp. 548549) Cf.

Those who have not done this, like Le Duchat, Motteux and Esmangart, have generally committed the error of tormenting themselves and their author to find individual explanations of personages and events.

The name Pausania is the consequence of an error; it is a corruption of Fausiana, a town and episcopal see of Sardinia mentioned by Gregory the Great, the site of which is in reality uncertain.

This error was followed until a very recent date by many scholars.

Writs of error in cases punishable with death are returnable only to the court of errors and appeals.

Appeals from the court of chancery as well as writs of error from the supreme court are heard by the court of errors and appeals.

The T eory.ee initial error of Justin was echoed by every subsequent theory.

In some of them he attacks superstition and philosophical error with the sharpness of his wit; in others he merely paints scenes of modern life.

But we must not fall into the error of supposing that the early progenitor of the whole Simian stock, including man, was identical with, or even closely resembled, any existing ape or monkey."

The fact that in no other scriptural passage is mention made of any Median ruler between the last Semitic king of Babylon and Cyrus, and the absolute silence of the authoritative ancient authors regarding such a king, make it apparent that the late author of Daniel is again in error in this particular.

In fact, this error of the author alone is proof positive that he must have lived at a very late period, when the record of most of the earlier historical events had become hopelessly confused and perverted.

Josephus, who places the reign of Cyrus forty to fifty years too early, makes a similar error.

From this has arisen another popular error, which attributes extraordinary curative properties to its flesh when dried and pulverized.

Its attempted enforcement was a grave error of judgment, and was attended by great abuses, and it was finally held unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.

Though there is no experiment behind this assumption it can hardly lead to error.

It is little wonder, then, that the several reductions of the collected results were internally discordant so as to leave outstanding a considerable " probable error," but showed themselves able to yield very different conclusions when the same set was discussed by different persons.

The measures were made with the Cape heliometer and have never been superseded, for the latest results with the minor planet Eros exactly confirm Gill's result-8.80" - while they decidedly diminish the associated probable error.

Of this the Testament forms the first two books; and according to the title (which, apparently by an error, is made to apply to the whole eight books) it contains the " testament, or words which Our Lord spake to His holy Apostles when He rose from the dead.

This error they realized too late, and endeavoured by fixing the resurrection for another day to gather the clans, but blank despair had taken the place of hope and faith, and it was only as starving suppliants that the Amaxosa sought the British.

But in determining the capacity of reservoirs intended to yield a supply of water equal to the mean flow of two, three or more years, the error, though on the safe side, caused by assuming the evaporation to be proportional to the rainfall, is too great to be neglected.

By testing the beam with the scale-pans attached and equal weights in the pans, and noting carefully the position which it takes up; and then interchanging the scale-pans, &c., and again noting the position which the beam takes up, a correct inference can be drawn as to the causes of error; and if after slightly altering or adjusting the knife-edges and scale-pans in the direction indicated by the experiment, the operation is repeated, any required degree of accuracy may be ob - tained by successive approximations.

As will be readily understood from the construction of the machines, there is more friction in counter machines than in scale-beams. The "sensitiveness " error allowed by the Board of Trade for counter machines is five times as great as that allowed for scale-beams.

When a platform machine is in true adjustment, and the loose weights which are intended to be hung at the end of the steelyard are correct and consistent among themselves, a good and new machine, whose capacity is 4 cwt., should not show a greater error than 4 oz.

He maintains further, in opposition to most of the Cyrenaic school, that wisdom or prudence alone is an insufficient guarantee against error.

These are ways of error, because they confound existence and non-existence.

When the result of any arithmetical operation or operations is represented approximately but not exactly by a number, the excess (positive or negative) of this number over the number which would express the result exactly is called the error.

In either of the above cases, and generally in any case where a number is known to be within a certain limit on each side of the stated value, the limit of error is expressed by the sign =.

It should be observed that the numerical value of the error is to be subtracted from or added to the stated value according as the error is positive or negative.

The limit of error of each being = o05, the limit of error of their sum or difference is = oi.

In the case of the two numbers given in the last paragraph, the product lies between and 3 5 5 X1.345=4.821825 We might take the product as (3.58X1.34)+( 005)2=4.797225, the limits of error being = 5(3 5 + 34) _ 0246; but it is more convenient to write it in such a form as 4 797= 025 or 4 80 03.

Klein (1734) to denote the tests of the Echini or sea-urchins; its later use for the animals themselves, or for the whole phylum, was an error in both history and etymology.

It is doubtful whether any opposition between crescent and cross, as symbols of Islam and Christianity, was ever intended by the Turks; and it is an historical error to attribute the crescent -to the Saracens of crusading times or the Moors in Spain.

He obtained lands in Leicestershire, and it has been said he was created earl of Leicester; this statement, however, is an error, although he exercised some of the privileges of an earl.

This is an error; they were protracted for twelve years after the accession of Henry VII., and did not really end till the time of Blackheath Field and the Early siege of Exeter (1497).

But for one error, indeed, it is probable that Walpoles rule would have been still further prolonged.

If an error (vitium) occurred in the auspices, the augurs could, of their own accord or at the request of the senate, inform themselves of the circumstances, and decree upon it.

Burke's vital error was his inability to see that a root and branch revolution was, under the conditions, inevitable.

Those who think that the French were likely to show a moderation and practical reasonableness in success, such as they had never shown in the hour of imminent ruin, will find Burke's judgment full of error and mischief.

Drinkwater-Bethune, was attributed to De Morgan, an error which seriously annoyed his nice sense of bibliographical accuracy.

The Church's first creed had been " the Fatherhood of God and the Messiahship of Jesus " (A Ritschl); but the " Rule of Faith " (Irenaeus; Tertullian, who uses the exact expression; Origen)- that summary of religiously important facts which was meant to ward off error without reliance on speculations such as the Logos doctrine - built itself up along the lines of the baptismal formula of Matt.

In regard to Scripture alone does he maintain that seeming error or discrepancy must be due to our misinterpretation.

He had a more modest estimate of human resources for forming true judgments in religion, and a less pronounced opinion of the immorality of religious error, than either the Catholic or the Puritan.

And the'tendency; to associate is there presented, not as the fundamental factor of human knowledge, but as a chief cause of human error.

Nevertheless it was a grave error of judgment and contributed to the approaching war.

And though the Stoic doctrine of determinism did not, when applied to moral problems, advance much beyond the reiteration of arguments derived from the universal validity of the principles of causality, nor the Epicurean counter-assertion of freedom avoid the error of regarding chance as a real cause and universal contingency as an explanation of the universe, it was nevertheless a real step forward to perceive the existence of the problem.

While he showed clearly the difficulty of acquiring knowledge, he was convinced that knowledge alone could be the source of a coherent system of virtue, as error of evil.

The Stoics answered that the error which was the essence of vice was so far voluntary that it could be avoided if men chose to exercise their reason.

The only good of man is the pure existence of the soul, which in itself, apart from the contagion of the body, is perfectly free from error or defect; if only it can be restored to the untrammelled activity of its original being, nothing external, nothing bodily, can positively impair its perfect welfare.

It was not that Christian writers did not feel the difficulty of attributing criminality to sincere ignorance or error.

In theory these successive approximations may be carried as far as we please, but in practice the labour of executing each approximation is so great that we are obliged to stop when the solution is so near the truth that the outstanding error is less than that of the best observations.

Its purpose is the attainment of so complete a power of prediction that the places of the sun, moon and planets may be assigned without noticeable error for an indefinite future time.

The eccentricity determined in this way is more than a degree in error, owing to the effect of the evection, which was unknown to Hipparchus.

The long prevalent estimation of Priscillian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon Augustine, Turibius of Astorga, Leo the Great and Orosius, although at the Council of Toledo in 400, fifteen years after Priscillian's death, when his case was reviewed, the most serious charge that could be brought was the error of language involved in rendering a',' ni ros by innascibilis.

But here the Athenians made a fatal error.

He himself confesses in his autobiography that "it was a great error in me to appear in this matter," and his conduct cost him the patronage of the duke of York.

The latter says it was held at Lismore, an error arising from the president having been bishop of Lismore.

Clerk Maxwell and George Chrystal that Ohm's law is true, within the limits of experimental error, even when the currents are so powerful as almost to fuse the conducting wire.

Henry had besides to invest his brother with the duchy of Burgundya grave error which hampered French politics during three centuries.

Thus by Louis XI.s short-sighted error the house of Austria established itself in the Low Countries.

Thus the first governmental act of the queen was an error, and dissipated the hope of replacing special privileges by a general guarantee given to the nation, which alone could have postponed a revolution.

The flight to Varennes was an irreparable error; for during the kings absence and until his return the insignificance of the royal power became apparent.

When he recognized his error in having raised the papacy from decadence by restoring its power over all the churches, he tried in vain to correct it by the Articles Organiques wanting, like Charlemagne, to be the legal protector of the pope, and eventually master of the Church.

Not that it is wholly free from error or exaggeration, but its mistakes are due merely to defective knowledge of the outside world, and its overstatements, virtually confined to the matter of numbers, proceed from a patriotic desire to magnify Jewish victories.

Thus constructed, the ' prism produces no lateral shift of the transmitted pencil; a conical pencil, incident directly, has nearly constant polarization over its extent, and consequently the error in determining the polarization of a parallel pencil, incident not quite normally, is a minimum.

In the majority of cases it is found that the observations can be represented within the limits of experimental error by a fairly simple empirical formula, at least for moderate ranges of temperatures.

Their observations were probably free from immersion errors, but they record some deviations from the formula which they consider to be beyond the possible limits of error of their work.

He states that the deviations from the formula were " quite within the limits of error introduced by the alteration of the resistance of the circuit with rise of temperature, the deviations of the mercury thermometers from the absolute scale, and the non-correction of the indications of the thermometer for the long column of mercury not immersed in the hot oil round the junctions."

The volume contained " Table Talk," " The Progress of Error," " Truth," "Expostulation " and much else that survives to be read in our day by virtue of the poet's finer work.

From certain expressions used in astrological texts that are earlier than the 7th century B.C. it would appear, indeed, that the beginnings at least of the calculation of sun and moon eclipses belong to the earlier period, but here, too, the chief work accomplished was after 400 B.e., and the defectiveness of early Babylonian astronomy may be gathered from the fact that as late as the 6th century B.C. an error of almost an entire month was made by the Babylonian astronomers in the attempt to determine through calculation the beginning of a certain year.

Apart, however, from the cost of the mineral and its very difficult working, a source of error lies in its want of homogeneity, which often causes a doublh or even a triple image.

Since, however, the difference of chromatic magnification cannot be overcome in powerful objectives, this error is still further increased by the eyepiece.

A second error can arise through the inaccuracy of the eyepiece micrometer, and also in the case of a screw micrometer through periodic faults of the screw, and through dead motion.

Contemporary Mahommedans did the same, for it is an error to suppose that this religion was from the first hostile to profane art.

Yarrell proved conclusively that Donovan's opinion was founded upon an error; unfortunately he contented himself with comparing whitebait with the shad only, and in the end adopted the opinion of the Thames fishermen, whose interest it was to represent it as a distinct adult form; thus the whitebait is introduced into Yarrell's History of British Fishes (1836) as Clupea alba.

It followed from his training that, if you admit one error in a revealed text, you incriminate the whole.

This, however, appears to be an error.

In strictness, sense, understanding, imagination and reason ought to have had their functions defined in close relation to the elements of knowledge with which they are severally connected, and as these elements have no existence as separate facts, but only as factors in the complex organic whole, it might have been possible to avoid the error of supposing that each subjective process furnished a distinct, separately cognizable portion of a mechanical whole.

Kant was anxious to avoid the error of Leibnitz, who had taken sense and understanding to differ in degree only, not in kind; but in avoiding the one error he fell into another of no less importance.

It has already been noted how serious was the error involved in the description of these as notions, without further attempt to clear up their precise significance.

This court has jurisdiction of appeals from equity courts in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $1000, except in cases involving the constitutionality of a Tennessee statute, contested election or state revenue, and ejectment suits; it has jurisdiction also of civil cases tried in the circuit and common law courts in which writs of error or appeals in the nature of writs of error are applied for.

Gibbon and other writers quote from John Cassian the tale of the poor monk, who, being convinced of his error, burst into tears, exclaiming, "You have taken away my God!

The source of the error can be discovered by retranslation.

Quinn was fearful; afraid that somehow we'd made a terrible error and the wrath of law enforcement would descend upon us.

If I'd been discovered, I'd have apologized profusely for my absent minded error.

He allowed no room for error, no alternative but for his victory.

Her rhetoric is beautiful and I've yet to find a spelling error.

The only system error is … five sensors were tripped when the field was disengaged, she murmured with a frown.

I apologize for the error.

She is far too arrogant to learn the error of her ways.

His countenance conveyed the possibility of error.

Only then will you find the knowledge to discern the differencebetween truth and error.

The employee in question who was responsible for the error has been given a severe reprimand along with a written warning.

We got a syntax error saying there were problems in some upgraded reports.

However, provided maximum rate of climb is being measured the error in using a fixed schedule of equivalent airspeed and height is negligible.

I am aware of the problems with wrist altimeters and would guess that 10m is within their margin of error.

Any error or omission therein shall not annul the sale, nor shall any compensation be allowed on either side.

Can it be the reason why I am getting the above error message while using antechamber?

The above approximation for the error bars rests on a gaussian approximation which assumes that the Hessian A is positive definite.

My joiner was crestfallen after Spitalfields aficionado Dan Cruickshank pointed out a small error in the window architrave.

We were able to quickly ascertain that there was no known rarity or error.

Our aim is to provide a consistent theoretical foundation which allows for model error in variational assimilation.

Why do I get a " not authorized (xx h) - READ THE FAQ " error?

As soon as I type a space, I get a system error beep and I can't add anything else.

Please note that the marketing picture is in error and the white pieces are white, not beige.

This is partly due to the bizarre ' iSync is updating your bookmarks ' error that users of the latest beta have been getting.

Spammers almost exclusively use bogus sending addresses so will not see the error message.

To explore scientific error paper in which needed to obtain villari also bolstered.

And who is in greater error than he who follows his own caprice without guidance from Allah.

A standard error 99 mJy is listed as 99 mJy because of space limitations in the originating catalog.

For men like Currie the party's rejection of his call for a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience had been a grave error.

Determining what constitutes a syntax error is not always clear-cut.

Each modem which has error correction will have a specific AT command to set up hardware flow control.

At update times, the error covariance is calculated from the ensemble.

However the true error is made by those who deride the supposed cretins, morons and seven year olds.

If you use cryptic, abbreviated names then you will receive cryptic email messages and your users will see cryptic, abbreviated error messages.

The answer may involve a certain amount of trial and error, so exploration is necessarily cyclic.

This error caused an offset in the source declination up to 1 arcmin.

Security engineering is about building systems to remain dependable in the face of malice, error or mischance.

I am getting an odd linker error to so with virtual destructors and I'm not sure what the problem could be.

No re-publication, refund or adjustment will be made where the error, misprint or omission does not materially detract from the advertisement.

Catalog of human error led to massive radioactive discharge.

The slight discrepancy is probably the result of error in measuring.

The more complex operations have more chance of error, are harder to remember and are less individually discriminable (Reason, 1990 ).

They flee the error of presuming on God only to fall into the trap of being gripped by an anxious dread of God.

Only a high school dropout would assume these details to be an error on Tea's part.

This quantity is equal to the width of the error ellipse orthogonal to the visibility vector.

Add the error ellipsoids of each shot to get an error ellipsoid for the entire loop.

The second concerns editorial emendations, where the original scribe has clearly made an error.

One likely error is the error of naive empiricism.

Getting everyone to realize that every single data error potentially sends people on a fools errand is a critical success factor.

You may correct factual errors in your personal information by sending us a request detailing the error.

On systems that don't support symbolic links, produces a fatal error at run time.

All error messages will contain details about the error messages will contain details about the error.

If output is not given, it defaults to input. errors may be given to define the error handling.

If a negative value is specified, an error message is output, instructing you to abort execution.

What matters is the extent of the error, not the extent of any damage.

If error is set false after an error, the program will continue, but results should be treated with suspicion.

The error model specifies how accurate the allele frequency estimates are.

I can't even use the old get-out of " typographical error " .

The error staring them in the face was too glaring.

The first action of an error handler routine should always be to redirect the error handling.

Germany's catastrophic error in 1914 was to resist British economic imperialism by recourse to war - the means of the previous age.

In less extreme cases, the computation of the beta weights and their standard errors can become very imprecise, due to round-off error.

On encountering a syntactically incorrect clause then an error message will be printed.

I'm putting this down to operator error from the housing taking a knock causing the indentation.

Applications to the Court to amend the indictment because of error should never be necessary.

Someone may have committed an error and led to great loss of life or great financial loss, thus inflicting severe harm on others.

Only the first error is very injurious, and I dare say a clever reader will notice what is wrong.

Weekly repayment installments also leave very little room for error or general emergencies.

With an error corrected link working, we can assume the data is arriving intact.

Better still, the player does not suffer from the Chroma Upsampling Error (where the edges of colors appear jagged ).

Bear away onto the original course and set the balloon jib again, the error costing us distance but thankfully not a place.

The free kick for the second goal was a forced error.

In numerical linear algebra he developed backward error analysis methods.

This will display the messages sent to the error log.

At times, either by operator error or equipment malfunction, the pool may have suffered from the addition of too much chlorine.

The reasons were either rapid delivery, analgesia refused, randomisation error or received meperidine (pethidine) or epidural respectively.

All error messages will contain details about the error.

But what about just having the already stored error code flash alternately with mileage on the already existing digital odometer?

Leave public assistance quot agent error insurance life omission predicting the insurance coverage for.

Note that having the user merge relies primarily on the user to not accidentally omit some changes, and thus is potentially error prone.

But if the Methil men felt supremely confident about defeating their less illustrious opponents they quickly discovered the error of their ways.

You will get your 1 million bytes, then nothing - apart from a buffer overflow error.

The programmer only becomes aware of the lower level when an error such as an arithmetic overflow occurs.

The process through which scientists determine and deal with error may at first seem peripheral to science.

Error in phylogeny will be illustrated with a comparison of two contemporary primate or host phylogenies against the pinworm or parasite phylogeny.

An object of diameter 1 meter would only improve the error to give pi to about 1 more decimal place.

For the low experienced pilot this allows greater freedom for error.

If a specified pixel is not a valid index into the colormap, a BadValue error results.

Drivers shown error of their ways Edinburgh police have launched a new video playback scheme in the capital.

In a formal argument we claim the transition probability of OK to ERROR is zero.

The default numerical method used by NEURON produces values which have an error proportional to dt.

We report equal error rates on the PolyVar database that are 34% lower than a baseline Gaussian mixture model likelihood ratio approach.

The operation may fail due to an error in the configu- ration may fail due to an error in the configu- ration file or the current memory load.

And to repeat that error on a worldwide scale as an essential core value of the newly realigned Anglicanism?

In particular, we demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach over standard mesh refinement algorithms which employ ad hoc error indicators.

With Direct Debit you are guaranteed an immediate refund in the unlikely event of an error ever occurring.

The sequence counter is also rolled back to prevent repetition of the error message for a block of similar statements.

The Word not only reproves sin in the life of an individual but it also reproves false teaching and error.

The upper box shows the residuals (cross marks) and error bars.

Of primary importance for high quality, is the need for error resilience (in the presence of packet loss) in the bitstream.

Within a matter of minutes rovers took the lead with Bellamy pouncing on a handling error by Kelvin Davis.

Arithmetic manipulation of past or future sentinels will not change their values, nor cause any error.

Are all the relevant error messages documented in a logical sequence?

Each error bar has seraphs which are ten printer points wide.

They seek a specific cause for each accident - driver's error, excessive speed, drunkenness, faulty brakes, bad road surface.

For another popular error is that of supposing that evil spirits must be unclean spirits.

The main problem raised by these tumors is confounding infection which may lead to late diagnosis or an error in tumor staging.

The assembly error discovered by CTC involves a failure to bolt the bracing strut to the inside of the fork blade.

This is also true if control was passed to a user-defined error handling routine specified by the intrinsic subroutine, ERRALT.

The error depends on how many authors with a hyphenated surname the reference has.

To reduce the effect of these error fields, a set of error field correction coils was installed on the mast tokamak.

It is straightforward to show students that the only mathematically tractable way forward is to minimize the squared error or the mean squared error.

Pension trustee liability indemnity to trustee liability indemnity to Trustees against negligent act, error or omission.

I am therefore of opinion that the adjudicator made an intra vires error rather than one which rendered his decision ultra vires.

However, sometimes you may need to burn at a lower speed in order to avoid a buffer underrun error.

Note the rather unfortunate printing error on the top line.

If we can shrink the error in u then the error in the final velocity v will also shrink.

If we can shrink the error in u then the error in the final velocity velocity v will also shrink.

Historically, these confounding effects have been controlled using linear models assuming a constant additive error variance.

Sharpness is very clean and, overall, this is a top-notch transfer that brings across the colorful visuals almost without error.

And wherever Vico's historical knowledge failed he was led into increased error by this artificial and arbitrary effort.

He was the son of Eustace, count of Boulogne, which has led many commentators into the error of saying that Godfrey of Bouillon was, born at the French port, whereas he was really born in the castle of Baisy near Genappe and Waterloo.

But, as the angle between the positionweb and the distance-webs is a constant, the remedy is to determine that angle (always very nearly a right angle) by any independent method and employ the distance-webs as position-webs in the way described, using the position-web only to determine the instantaneous index error of the position-circle.

This corresponds, in the Cape instrument, with an excess of the diameters of the holes over those of the cylinders of about i,*mth of an inch - a quantity so small as to imply good workmanship, though it involves a systematic error which is very much larger than the probable error of a single determination of the coincidence point.

The two micrometer screws shall be without sensible periodic or other error, and exactly alike in pitch.

This would, of course, create a periodic error, which would be determinable for the motion of any particular point (say the middle) of the web, but which would be smaller for a point near the axis of the screw and greater for a point farther from that axis.

To perform this function without fear of error, this authority must be infallible in its own sphere.

The question of the succession was now again prominent, and Shaftesbury, in opposition to Halifax, committed the error, which really brought about his fall, of putting forward Monmouth as his nominee, thus alienating a large number of his supporters; he encouraged, too, the belief that this was agreeable to the king.

During the troubles in the Cevennes (see Huguenots) he softened to the utmost of his power the rigour of the edicts, and showed himself so indulgent even to what he regarded as error, that his memory was long held in veneration amongst the Protestants of that district.

In Siena he wrote his Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas, a vigorous indictment, in twenty "testimonia," against what he now believed to be the fundamental error of the Roman Church in subordinating Scripture to tradition, as well as against various particular doctrines, such as that of ' P. Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1899), 45 2 -47 1; Romische Quartalschrift (1898), 624-631.

Writing to the Scottish clergy, and rejecting their claim to suppress dissent in order to extirpate error, he said, "Your pretended fear lest error should step in is like the man who would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.

Weisse; but, whereas Weisse thought that the Hegelian structure was sound in the main, and that its imperfections might be mended, Fichte held it to be incurably defective, and spoke of it as a "masterpiece of erroneous consistency or consistent error."

The alternative is to fish all stages of the medusa in its growth in the open sea, a slow and laborious method in which the chance of error is very great, unless the series of stages is very complete.

Secondly they fell into the natural error of emphasizing the purely animal side of the "nature," which was their ethical criterion.

This omission is sometimes held to be an error, but as a fact it is an advantage.

As circumstances allowed, she appears to have taught him reading, writing and arithmetic - acquisitions made with so little of remembered pain that " were not the error corrected by analogy," he says, " I should be tempted to conceive them as innate."

The Spartans were indignant, and when the Argives and their allies, in flagrant disregard of the truce, took Arcadian Orchomenus and prepared to march on Tegea, their fury knew no bounds, and Agis escaped having his house razed and a fine of 100,000 drachmae imposed only by promising to atone for his error by a signal victory.