misoperate

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ operate.

Verb

misoperate (third-person singular simple present misoperates, present participle misoperating, simple past and past participle misoperated)

  1. (usually intransitive) To operate incorrectly.
    • 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 31:
      Our research suggests that many signals could mis-operate during the [solar] storm, but at present we can't say precisely which signals are going to be affected or when the faults would occur.

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