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errorous en · ADJ

Etymology

From error + -ous.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of erroneous.
   • For a given information bit b, LMMSE detector of (10) makes an errorous decision on the kth user’s information bit […] 1996, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Technical Program, Conference Record, page 81:
   • Classification of the canine glaucomas based on histopathogical examinations of end-stage glaucomas are of limited value and may indicate errorous assumptions. 2000, “Chapter 7: The Canine Glaucomas (Kirk N. Gelatt, Dennis E. Brooks, and Maria E. Källberg)”, in Kirk N. Gelatt, editor, Essentials of Veterinary Ophthalmology, published 2013, →ISBN, High-Resolution Ultrasonography and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy, page 158:
   • In addition, artifacts including epiretinal membrane,⁴⁴ retinoschisis^(45,46) vitreous opacity,⁴⁷ and false segmentation can lead to errorous measurements.⁴⁸ 2017, “1. Structure”, in Weinreb, Robert N., Garway-Heath, David, Leung, Christopher, Medeiros, Felipe, Liebmann, Jeffrey, editors, Diagnosis of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma, Kugler Publications, →ISBN, 4. Imaging technologies for detection of glaucoma, page 6:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Errorous Object 2009, Alfred Stein, Wenzhong Shi, Wietske Bijker, editors, Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 29:
   • Figure 6. Classification performance for a one-to-one matcher using errorous location uncertainties in the Bayes matcher. Matcher 1: correct uncertainty used; Matcher 2: location uncertainty assumed is 0.5 times true uncertainty; Matcher 3: location uncertainty assumed is 2 times true uncertainty. 1999, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, volume 6, page 795:
   • That is why the value of the parameter expresses the average value influenced by all real physical interactions, mathematical flexibility of the equation used and fitting of the errorous data. 1996, Polish Journal of Chemistry, volume 70:
   • 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 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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erroneous