miscomputing
/ˌmɪskəmˈpjutɪŋ/
verb
- The act of calculating or counting incorrectly.
- Miscomputing the distance caused them to run out of gas in the desert.
- By miscomputing the recipe's proportions, the cake turned out too dry.
- The programmer realized she was miscomputing the loop iterations.
noun
- An instance of incorrect calculation.
- A miscomputing of the time zone caused them to miss the flight.
- The engineer's miscomputing delayed the bridge construction by a month.
- One small miscomputing in the budget led to a huge deficit.
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