misoptimize
misoptimize verb: to optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
Verb
misoptimize (third-person singular simple present misoptimizes, present participle misoptimizing, simple past and past participle misoptimized)
- To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
- Is anything like this going on inside the program in question as ported to Pleiades? Unless a complete static analysis of the generated object code is done, or unless every input data set is run through a correct version of the program and the output compared with that of the misoptimized version...2010, Ralf Gruber, Vincent Keller, HPC@Green IT: Green High Performance Computing Methods, page 81
- Inattentive consumers are misoptimizing: they fail to recognize opportunities to save money by choosing products with lower ancillary costs.2013, Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth, page 148
Forms of misoptimize
| third-person singular present | misoptimizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | misoptimizing |
| past participle | misoptimized |
| past | misoptimized |
Origin of misoptimize
From mis- + optimize.
Questions about misoptimize
- What does misoptimize mean?
- Misoptimize means to optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
- What part of speech is misoptimize?
- Misoptimize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misoptimize?
- The past tense of misoptimize is misoptimized.
Words near misoptimize in the dictionary
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