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erroring

erroring is the present participle and gerund of error.

Meaning of error

Verb

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

  1. To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
    • The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
  2. To show or contain an error or fault.
    • The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
  3. (nonstandard) To err.
    • Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction...1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC

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Phrases with erroring

Questions about erroring

What is erroring the present participle and gerund of?
Erroring is the present participle and gerund of error.

Words near erroring in the dictionary

  1. errored
  2. errored out
  3. errorfree
  4. errorful
  5. errorfully
  6. erroring
  7. erroring out
  8. errorist
  9. errorists
  10. errorless
  11. errorlessly

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