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misdetect

misdetect verb: to detect wrongly, or where not actually present.

Verb

misdetect (third-person singular simple present misdetects, present participle misdetecting, simple past and past participle misdetected)

  1. (transitive) To detect wrongly, or where not actually present.
    • The GMM enables us to determine strict boundary positions. On the other hand, the GMM often misdetects boundaries that are not actual boundaries, such as changing points of music instruments, […]2006, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, page 3029

Forms of misdetect

third-person singular presentmisdetects
present participlemisdetecting
past participlemisdetected
pastmisdetected

Origin of misdetect

From mis- + detect.

Questions about misdetect

What does misdetect mean?
Misdetect means to detect wrongly, or where not actually present.
What part of speech is misdetect?
Misdetect is a verb.
What is the past tense of misdetect?
The past tense of misdetect is misdetected.

Words near misdetect in the dictionary

  1. misdesigned
  2. misdesigning
  3. misdesigns
  4. misdesire
  5. misdesires
  6. misdetect
  7. misdetected
  8. misdetecting
  9. misdetection
  10. misdetections
  11. misdetects

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