(n): an act that does not achieve its intended goal
(n): inadvertent incorrectness
(n): the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
(n): a misconception resulting from incorrect information
(n): an incorrect conception
(n): (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
(n): an act that fails
(n): departure from what is ethically acceptable
(n): the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
(n): (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
(n): an event that happens
(n): part of a statement that is not correct
(n): a statement that contains a mistake
