errata

noun er·ra·ta \ e-ˈrä-tə , -ˈrā- , -ˈra- \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Definition of errata

: a list of errors in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with corrections; also : a page bearing such a list

The publisher should include with the book an errata sheet, as is customary with publishers specializing in quantitative methods.
—Susan M. Elshaw-Thrall

Recent Examples of errata from the Web

Although brief, the prefaces of the first two editions and an errata page are written in a distinctive (and often complaining) voice.

— keith stavely and kathleen fitzgerald, Smithsonian, "What America’s First Cookbook Says About Our Country and Its Cuisine," 12 Jan. 2018

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