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mispriming

mispriming is the present participle and gerund of misprime.

Meaning of misprime

Verb

misprime (third-person singular simple present misprimes, present participle mispriming, simple past and past participle misprimed)

  1. To prime incorrectly.
    • It is also useful when using degenerate primers which may misprime and cause nonspecific products.2007, Ralph Rapley, John M. Walker, Molecular Biomethods Handbook, page 310

Noun

mispriming (usually uncountable, plural misprimings)

  1. (usually) Faulty priming

Forms of mispriming

Verb
alternative formmis-priming
Noun
pluralmisprimings

Origin of mispriming

From misprime + -ing.

From mis- + priming.

Questions about mispriming

What does mispriming mean?
Mispriming means faulty priming.
What is mispriming the present participle and gerund of?
Mispriming is the present participle and gerund of misprime.
What part of speech is mispriming?
Mispriming is a noun.
What is the plural of mispriming?
The plural of mispriming is misprimings.

Words near mispriming in the dictionary

  1. mispricing
  2. mispricings
  3. misprime
  4. misprimed
  5. misprimes
  6. mispriming
  7. misprincipled
  8. misprint
  9. misprinted
  10. misprinter
  11. misprinters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispriming (page history and authors); misprime (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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