Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An error or mistake in writing or printing. The list of the errata of a book is usually printed at the beginning or end, with references to the pages and lines in which they occur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An error or mistake in writing or printing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
error , especially one in a printed work.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, if you think it s necessary I will publish an "erratum" at G-chess citing this blog as a corrective.
Disagreement Behind the Scenes Jan 2008
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Words like 'erratum'. nads went at 20: 12 turn back | go forth diary now then id notes guestbook exit points
Rant! naddywoman 2006
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It occurs so often, as to render its being an 'erratum' improbable; yet I do not remember to have met elsewhere 'wane' used for 'decline' as a verb active.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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An 'erratum' sticker was also put on the back cover, and on the front of the LP
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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An 'erratum' sticker was also put on the back cover, and on the front of the LP
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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The Author was first indebted for a knowledge of the existence of this document to the volume called Testamenta Eboracensia, published by the Surtees Society; though he cannot suppress the surprise with which he read the comment of the editors, the chief mistake of which was discovered in time to be rectified in an "erratum" after the work had been printed.]
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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In an irony so delicious you'd think it was on purpose, the NT issued erratum slips with its program.
An Edgy 'Comedy of Errors' Paul Levy 2011
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Professor Hospital's submission that thirty of Columbia's "sixty [sic]" annual graduates have either already published a book or signed a publishing contract by the time they graduate is so inarguably an erratum that there need be no further refutation of it except to dare Professor Hospital or any other professor at Columbia to prove the claim.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Professor Hospital's submission that thirty of Columbia's "sixty [sic]" annual graduates have either already published a book or signed a publishing contract by the time they graduate is so inarguably an erratum that there need be no further refutation of it except to dare Professor Hospital or any other professor at Columbia to prove the claim.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Harry writes: erratum: second sentence in first reply should read "... technocratic or populist, ..."
Hayek and Anti-capitalist Intellectuals, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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