The word error comes from the Latin "errare" which means "to fail or make mistakes". This is a term that can be involved in anything or circumstance that may exist in the world, and is directly associated with a very common saying or saying "we are human beings, we are not perfect, we can make mistakes", this is totally true due to that every action taken by an individual is subject in some way to an experimental time (whether that act is executed for the first time or have a great experience about it, a very simple example may be the act of "walking", even if you have a lifetime walking, you can make the mistake of stumbling and falling), anything can happen.
This word is associated with making a mistake, with something that was done wrong, that is, the error is an unwanted consequence of something, that is why it is considered to have acted in a wrong way. However, there is a great difference when something goes wrong and that bad action is caused, because in that case it is acting by default with treachery and malice, and otherwise the error is the result of an accident, that is to say an unforeseen mishap.
Although in most cases the mistakes made by human beings result in tragic situations, such is the case of car accidents, that human errors cause the death of so many people, there are also creations in which their birth comes given by an unknown eventuality, as happened at the time with the invention of "coca cola", what its creator was seeking to originate was actually a remedy to cure headaches, but little by little he discovered that the product of his search was actually a sweet and fizzy drink, and like this many other things, what he should leave as a way of teaching that mistakes must be learned so that those who left a bad product do not commit them again.
En los campos científicos como la física es un término ampliamente usado porque es visto como la diferencia que existe entre la medición y la realidad y en la matemática existe el error de cálculo, producto de una falla en una operación.