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error correct

error correct verb: to debug.

Verb

error correct (third-person singular simple present error corrects, present participle error correcting, simple past and past participle error corrected)

  1. To debug.
  2. (broadly) To rectify mistakes.

Forms of error correct

third-person singular presenterror corrects
present participleerror correcting
past participleerror corrected
pasterror corrected

Origin of error correct

Back-formation from error correction.

Questions about error correct

What does error correct mean?
Error correct means to debug.
What part of speech is error correct?
Error correct is a verb.
What is the past tense of error correct?
The past tense of error correct is error corrected.

Words near error correct in the dictionary

  1. error boxes
  2. error carried forward
  3. error catastrophe
  4. error catastrophes
  5. error code
  6. error correct
  7. error corrected
  8. error correcting
  9. error corrects
  10. error diffusion
  11. error fare

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