miscodev.
/ˌmɪsˈkəʊd/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈkoʊd/ 1. transitive. To encode incorrectly; to assign the wrong code to. Usually in passive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > express in code [verb (transitive)] > convert into code > incorrectly
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1949 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 44 425 Some homographic words were miscoded, such as concertina barbed wire under musical instruments.
1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 May 1332 Diarrhoea and viral infections were miscoded most often.
1997 Canad. Jrnl. Cardiol. 13 351 Six of 11 charts were miscoded as AMI [= acute myocardial infarction] in hospital records.
2. intransitive. Molecular Biology. To produce an error in the genetic code; esp. to produce misincorporation of nucleotides. Also transitive (rare).
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1964 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 51 885 We see that resistant ribosomes do not miscode under the influence of streptomycin.
1970 Sci. News Let. 23 May 510 The mutant DNA miscoded a single amino acid in the sequence of structural protein in the membrane.
1979 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 562 51 Approximately one O6-methylguanine in three miscodes leading to the incorporation of dTMP.
1998 Chem. Res. in Toxicol. 11 666 A urea residue, in particular, has the potential to miscode.
Derivatives
ˌmisˈcoded adj.
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1965 Evolution 19 315/1 The character will show up as miscoded, if we consider all OTU's exhibiting the operationally homologous character state 2 as identical.
1979 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 87 529 No missing or obviously miscoded values of the variables used.
1998 Austral. N.Z. Jrnl. Public Health 22 765 We queried the original paper records of subsets of women to identify missing or miscoded information.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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