misindicate
misindicate verb: to indicate incorrectly.
Verb
misindicate (third-person singular simple present misindicates, present participle misindicating, simple past and past participle misindicated)
- To indicate incorrectly.
- The external monitor can be displaced and therefore misindicate the contraction’s duration and frequency.1977, Constance A. Bean, “The Medical School and Gloria”, in Labor and Delivery: An Observer’s Diary: What You Should Know About Today’s Childbirth, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc....
- The external morphology of the terminal segments of the female abdomen of Piesma has given rise to various interpretations. In their 1975 publication, the authors corrected numerous errors by Wagner (1953, 1954, 1966) but misindicated the terminal cone to belong to the posterior gonapophyses.1983, Ernst Heiss, Jean Péricart, “Revision of Palaearctic Piesmatida (Heteroptera)”, in Remigius Geiser, editor, Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, volume 73, Munich: Münchner...
Forms of misindicate
| third-person singular present | misindicates |
|---|---|
| present participle | misindicating |
| past participle | misindicated |
| past | misindicated |
Origin of misindicate
From mis- + indicate.
Questions about misindicate
- What does misindicate mean?
- Misindicate means to indicate incorrectly.
- What part of speech is misindicate?
- Misindicate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misindicate?
- The past tense of misindicate is misindicated.
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