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MISESTIMATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does misestimation mean?
• MISESTIMATION (noun)
The noun MISESTIMATION has 1 sense:
1. a mistake in calculating
Familiarity information: MISESTIMATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mistake in calculating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning
Hypernyms ("misestimation" is a kind of...):
error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misestimation"):
backfire; boomerang (a miscalculation that recoils on its maker)
rounding; rounding error ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals)
truncation error ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished)
Derivation:
misestimate (calculate incorrectly)
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