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misclocked

misclocked is the simple past and past participle of misclock.

Meaning of misclock

Verb

misclock (third-person singular simple present misclocks, present participle misclocking, simple past and past participle misclocked)

  1. To cause or produce a misclock.
    • This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288
  2. To clock incorrectly; to mistime.
    • How else could they misclock one of the disappearance intervals by more than a month?1993, Robert Paul Metzger, Transforming Texts: Classical Images in New Contexts, page 46

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Questions about misclocked

What is misclocked the simple past and past participle of?
Misclocked is the simple past and past participle of misclock.

Words near misclocked in the dictionary

  1. misclimb
  2. misclimbed
  3. misclimbing
  4. misclimbs
  5. misclock
  6. misclocked
  7. misclocking
  8. misclocks
  9. misclose
  10. misclosed
  11. miscloses

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