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Definition of human error
: a person's mistake rather than on the failure of a machine The accident was blamed on human error.
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humanplay
: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) : a person : man
: hominid
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errorplay
: an act or condition of ignorant or imprudent deviation from a code of behavior
: an act involving an unintentional deviation from truth or accuracy
: an act that through ignorance, deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done : such as
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