misrecovery

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ recover +‎ -y.

Noun

misrecovery (countable and uncountable, plural misrecoveries)

  1. The act or process of misrecovering.
    • 2003 March, Mark A. Pitt, Woojae Kim, In Jae Myung, “Flexibility versus generalizability in model selection”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, volume 10:
      In the bottom graph, the percentage of misrecoveries by RMSD, BMS, and those common to both are plotted for each of the six bins of parameter sets.
    • 2010, Cécile Fougeron, Barbara Kuehnert, Mariapaola Imperio, Laboratory Phonology 10, page 762:
      My first point is that perceptual misrecovery is not necessary there.
    • 2013, William C. Watt, Writing Systems and Cognition, page xi:
      To take just the most salient instance, the letters or other elements of such systems owe their shapes to a number of quite distinct factors: to physical factors (whether they're set down with a brush or a pen, for instance); to cognitive factors (how they have been affected by human misrecollection and misrecovery); to perceptual factors (how they have been kept distinguishable); and even to esthetic factors (how they fit, when they assumed their final shapes, the cultural values of the time).