noun
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an error in writing or printing
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another name for corrigendum
Usage
See errata.
Etymology
Origin of erratum
1580–90; < Latin, noun use of errātum wandered, erred, strayed (neuter past participle of errāre ). See err, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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I think his social media followers will instead shout, “Holy erratum, Batman.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2019
But in an erratum issued by the journal, first reported by Retraction Watch, the authors said those two findings were “exactly reversed.”
From Washington Times • Jun. 11, 2016
This one isn’t, strictly speaking, a study but, rather, a remarkable erratum to a study that garnered quite a bit of attention when it was published, in 2012, in the American Journal of Political Science.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2016
“That’s another error in this publication and I’ve submitted an erratum to the publisher,” Thorp said.
From MSNBC • Jun. 10, 2014
A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage, and that perhaps which, of all others, the unfortunate poet is the most proud of.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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