runtime error

1. 1.

   an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time

   Synonymssemantic errorrun-time error

   Broadersoftware error

   computer science

Questions about runtime error

What does runtime error mean?

runtime error means "an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time".

What is another word for runtime error?

Close synonyms include semantic error, run-time error. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is runtime error a common word?

runtime error is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.