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misrecovering

misrecovering is the present participle and gerund of misrecover.

Meaning of misrecover

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

Questions about misrecovering

What is misrecovering the present participle and gerund of?
Misrecovering is the present participle and gerund of misrecover.

Words near misrecovering in the dictionary

  1. misrecounting
  2. misrecounts
  3. misrecover
  4. misrecovered
  5. misrecoveries
  6. misrecovering
  7. misrecovers
  8. misrecovery
  9. misrecruit
  10. misrecruited
  11. misrecruiting

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