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typographical error
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typographical error - (typo) An error while inputting text via keyboard, made despite the fact that the user knows exactly what to type in. This usually results from the operator's inexperience at keyboarding, rushing, not paying attention, or carelessness.

Compare: mouso, thinko.


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This is an extremely important story, but unfortunately it is marred by extensive length, an overwhelming emphasis on detail, dense writing with page-length paragraphs, typographical errors, an inadequate index which also includes page number errors, and generally, poor proof reading.
Elizabeth Ann Danto, Freud's Free Clinics; Psychoanalysis and Social ... by Leighninger, Leslie / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Typographical errors are too common, and a good editor could have helped with framing, transitions, consistency, and style.
Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing by Wiltenburg, Joy / Renaissance Quarterly
It is sprinkled with typographical errors like "Ahlff" for "
May O'Donnell: Modern Dance Pioneer by Hering, Doris / Dance Magazine
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