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misrecover

misrecover verb: to recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.

Verb

misrecover (third-person singular simple present misrecovers, present participle misrecovering, simple past and past participle misrecovered)

  1. To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.
    • The third situation in which Massaro et al. (2001) found BMS misrecovered the correct model a high percentage of the time was when Newton’s law (NMP) was compared with a weighted additive version of Newton’s law (WNAV).2003 March, Mark A. Pitt, Woojae Kim, In Jae Myung, “Flexibility versus generalizability in model selection”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, volume 10
    • In practice, this constraint is a significant limitation because if the key recovery process does not work for only one key byte (because not enough encrypted packets were captured by the attacker from the concerning weak IV class or because a byte of the plaintext is unknown), all the following...2007, Carlisle Adams, Ali Miri, Michael Wiener, Selected Areas in Cryptography, page 346

Forms of misrecover

third-person singular presentmisrecovers
present participlemisrecovering
past participlemisrecovered
pastmisrecovered

Origin of misrecover

From mis- + recover.

Questions about misrecover

What does misrecover mean?
Misrecover means to recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.
What part of speech is misrecover?
Misrecover is a verb.
What is the past tense of misrecover?
The past tense of misrecover is misrecovered.

Words near misrecover in the dictionary

  1. misrecords
  2. misrecount
  3. misrecounted
  4. misrecounting
  5. misrecounts
  6. misrecover
  7. misrecovered
  8. misrecoveries
  9. misrecovering
  10. misrecovers
  11. misrecovery

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