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misjoin

misjoin verb: to join wrongly or improperly.

Verb

misjoin (third-person singular simple present misjoins, present participle misjoining, simple past and past participle misjoined)

  1. To join wrongly or improperly.

Noun

misjoin (plural misjoins)

  1. A wrong or erroneous join or juncture.
    • We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313

Synonyms of misjoin

Forms of misjoin

Verb
third-person singular presentmisjoins
present participlemisjoining
past participlemisjoined
pastmisjoined
Noun
pluralmisjoins

Origin of misjoin

From mis- + join.

Questions about misjoin

What does misjoin mean?
Misjoin means to join wrongly or improperly.
What part of speech is misjoin?
Misjoin can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misjoin?
The past tense of misjoin is misjoined.

Words near misjoin in the dictionary

  1. misissuance
  2. misissue
  3. misissued
  4. misissues
  5. misissuing
  6. misjoin
  7. misjoinder
  8. misjoinders
  9. misjoined
  10. misjoining
  11. misjoins

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