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5️⃣ The number 💻 Server error
500

500

4 5.6
An error code a website shows when its server fails
  • noun
  • Texting
translation icon : error interno del servidor
  • Whenever I try to access that page, I receive a 500 Internal Server Error.

Examples

  • The website displayed a 500 error message, indicating a problem with the server.

  • During peak times, the server often returns a 500 response due to high traffic.

  • U.S. stocks are at the start of a new market that may spur an 88 percent advance in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index in the next two or three.

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  • The Standard & Poor's 500 Index must rise 41 percent to reach its last closing price before Sept. 15, when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy, freezing credit markets.

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  • With just three months left in the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index is up 14.6 percent, while the NASDAQ composite index, which measures more than 3,000 stocks on the NASDAQ exchange, is up 19.6 percent.

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Synonyms

error
vs500
  • Specialized
300 3.0

A computer problem that makes a program give a wrong result or stop

refers specifically to a web-side failure rather than any general computing fault
server issue
vs500
  • Specialized
1 3.6

A problem that makes a computer that runs websites and apps stop working

is a specific web-side failure that causes an internal response from the host

Surface Forms

500 singular
500s plural

Etymology

500 In the web world comes from the three-digit HTTP codes where numbers starting with 5 show a 'server' problem; 500 is the general 'internal server error', so seeing a 500 means something went wrong inside the website's server.