misduplicate

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ duplicate.

Verb

misduplicate (third-person singular simple present misduplicates, present participle misduplicating, simple past and past participle misduplicated)

  1. To duplicate incorrectly.
    • 1999, Marc Smith, World Class: Conversations with the Bridge Masters, page 244:
      However, the board had actually been misduplicated — the N-S and E-W hands were switched in one room, so that we had held the same cards as our teammates.
    • 2015, James Tiptree, Jr., The Starry Rift:
      Now everyone should be asleep—unless somebody was suited up. So far only instants have passed; he has another three minim before the situation of any captives would become lethal, if he has misduplicated those frequencies.
    • 2017, Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, Will Straw, Improvisation and Social Aesthetics:
      The idea is not to break, or even to preserve, but to repeat; and to celebrate repetition, knowing that you will misduplicate—and that the misduplications are the closest achievable thing to an actual you” (Compton 2003b).