miscoding
/ˌmɪsˈkoʊdɪŋ/
noun
- The act or process of assigning incorrect codes, especially in computing or data entry.
- The company lost money due to miscoding of shipping charges.
- Miscoding in the medical records can lead to serious treatment errors.
- Training reduced miscoding by the data entry team.
Antonyms
adjective
- That is in the process of being assigned an incorrect code.
- They identified a miscoding function in the payment system.
- The miscoding software module was replaced with a corrected version.
- The miscoding algorithm caused duplicate entries in the database.
verb
- Present participle of miscode: assigning an incorrect code to something.
- She realized she was miscoding the product numbers and started over.
- The program keeps miscoding the time zone information.
- The intern was miscoding the customer records because of unclear instructions.