erroneous

In a sentence

Six example sentences with erroneous, each labelled with its topic.

• The team's erroneous calculation put the probe four hundred kilometers off course before anyone rechecked the units.

  Science

• An erroneous decimal in the spreadsheet made the quarterly loss look ten times worse than it actually was.

  Finance

• Their erroneous assumption that every customer wanted monthly billing cost them a year of building the wrong product.

  Startups

• An erroneous instruction to the jury was enough for the appeals court to order a fresh trial.

  Law

• One erroneous reading from a temperature sensor shut the whole data center down for an afternoon.

  Technology

• The erroneous jobs figure was corrected a month later, but markets had already moved on the wrong number.

  Economics

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains erroneous. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• domination
• manipulation
• inherent
• indifference
• methodology
• predominant
• emphasise
• integration
• elaborate
• reconstructed
• ethical
• utilise