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Erratum

Erratum \Er*ra"tum\, n.; pl. Errata. [L., fr. errare, erratum, to wander, err. See Err.] An error or mistake in writing or printing.

A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage.
--Cowper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
erratum

"an error in writing or printing," 1580s, from Latin erratum (plural errata), neuter past participle of errare "to wander, err" (see err).

Wiktionary
erratum

n. An error, especially one in a printed work.

WordNet
erratum
  1. n. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]

  2. [also: errata (pl)]

Wikipedia
Erratum

An erratum or corrigendum (plurals: errata, corrigenda) (comes from Latin: errata corrige) is a correction of a published text. An erratum is most commonly issued shortly after its original text is published. Patches to security issues in a computer program are also sometimes called errata. As a general rule, publishers issue an erratum for a production error (i.e., an error introduced during the publishing process) and a corrigendum for an author's error.

Usage examples of "erratum".

I have pretty much accepted my role as simple-minded preceptor, instilling errata, misevaluations, and misconceptions in the minds of my pupils and telling outright lies to their faces.

McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in to the papers about it.

Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.

She could not at that moment easily frame herself anew, not as some staid erratum but as the product of passion extended against great odds.

Jacob into the office where he acted like a demented chimp while she and Patsy inserted five thousand erratum slips.

Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.