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mispointing

mispointing is the present participle and gerund of mispoint.

Meaning of mispoint

Verb

mispoint (third-person singular simple present mispoints, present participle mispointing, simple past and past participle mispointed)

  1. (transitive) To point wrongly
    • a mispointed antenna
  2. to punctuate wrongly.

Questions about mispointing

What is mispointing the present participle and gerund of?
Mispointing is the present participle and gerund of mispoint.

Words near mispointing in the dictionary

  1. misplugged
  2. misplugging
  3. misplugs
  4. mispoint
  5. mispointed
  6. mispointing
  7. mispoints
  8. mispolarization
  9. mispolarizations
  10. mispolarize
  11. mispolarized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispointing (page history and authors); mispoint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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