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MISCALCULATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does miscalculation mean?
• MISCALCULATION (noun)
The noun MISCALCULATION has 1 sense:
1. a mistake in calculating
Familiarity information: MISCALCULATION 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 ("miscalculation" 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 "miscalculation"):
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:
miscalculate (calculate incorrectly)
miscalculate (judge incorrectly)
Context examples
If I had my way, I'd have Cap'n Smollett work us back into the trades at least; then we'd have no blessed miscalculations and a spoonful of water a day.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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