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misclocking

misclocking is the present participle and gerund 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 misclocking

What is misclocking the present participle and gerund of?
Misclocking is the present participle and gerund of misclock.

Words near misclocking in the dictionary

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

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