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computer error

n. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer [syn: error]

Usage examples of "computer error".

A computer error (or, to be fair, it may have been human error) caused me accidentally to 'erase' the disc containing Chapter 3.

But if Dad would at least move the thing off dead center--which no one except Nina has done--then, if the Tera awards it to him tomorrow morning, Randy can plausibly argue that it's something other than a computer error.

Ford had only acquired it through a serious computer error towards the end of the fifteen years' sojourn he had spent on the planet Earth.

What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously.

The need for accuracy was far too great to think that a deviation such as Taurik was describing could be accidental or even the fault of computer error.

A computer error which I've been unable to eradicate causes a copy of the puppet to be produced in the growth vats from time to time.