MISRECKONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misreckoning mean? 

• MISRECKONING (noun)
  The noun MISRECKONING has 1 sense:

1. a mistake in calculating

  Familiarity information: MISRECKONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISRECKONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mistake in calculating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning

Hypernyms ("misreckoning" 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 "misreckoning"):

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)