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error definition - telecom
  1. The discrepancy between a computed, estimated, or measured value or condition and that which is true, specified, expected, or theoretically correct.
  2. In a computer, a discrepancy in a calculation, in a file, or in the execution of a program.
  3. In telecommunications, the discrepancy between data as transmitted and data as received. See also error control.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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