PROGRAMMING ERROR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does programming error mean? 

• PROGRAMMING ERROR (noun)
  The noun PROGRAMMING ERROR has 1 sense:

1. error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result

  Familiarity information: PROGRAMMING ERROR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGRAMMING ERROR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

programming error; software error

Hypernyms ("programming error" is a kind of...):

computer error; error ((computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "programming error"):

run-time error; runtime error; semantic error (an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time)

syntax error (an error of language resulting from code that does not conform to the syntax of the programming language)