Definition of miskey in English:
miskey
verbmiskeying, miskeyed, miskeys mɪsˈkiːmisˈkē
[with object]Key (a word or piece of data) into a computer or other machine incorrectly.
users often do not notice that they have miskeyed a word
Example sentencesExamples
- If you accidentally activate this security feature by unintentionally miskeying a password three times, you would need to contact the Bank to re-establish the password for that account.
- About 99% of those errors are caused by minor system problems or people miskeying addresses.
- The recesses aid in alignment of the user's finger to prevent miskeying of other keys.
- A bettor places a $50 win at the last second and the teller miskeys the ticket as a $500 or $5000 win.
- Otherwise, manual addition of the accession date, with all its potential for miskeying, will be necessary.
- I thought maybe I had miskeyed something and gone back a page, but I tried it again with the same results.
- Where any breach occurs unintentionally, for example through miskeying or during the course of an authorized use, the use shall be discontinued at once.
- Suppose you bought your insurance, but your insurer has miskeyed one number in your Vehicle Identification Number.
- But it seems that a trader at a US investment bank miskeyed an entry for a trade at the close of business.
- Checking for items that you may have overlooked or miskeyed is a good place to start.
- You may have miskeyed the document number.
- Prior to final scoring, a key validation process is conducted to determine if any answers have been miskeyed or need to be modified.
- It can also reduce the labor associated with manually keying in the information and the time spent on errors caused by miskeying the data.
- Crucially, as all the dimensions are set at an early phase, there will be no need to enter these figures again, so errors through miskeying data are avoided.