mispatch

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ patch.

Verb

mispatch (third-person singular simple present mispatches, present participle mispatching, simple past and past participle mispatched)

  1. (transitive, computing) To patch wrongly.
    • 1990, PC Mag, volume 9, number 7:
      Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM.
    • 2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82:
      When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order.