misspeculate
misspeculate verb: to speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
Verb
misspeculate (third-person singular simple present misspeculates, present participle misspeculating, simple past and past participle misspeculated)
- To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
- There is no reason why "aggrieved" persons should, by the contract law of damages, be put in a better position than they would have occupied had they performed; secondly, the agreed market and risk allocations should not be upset by the often unclear question of who was in breach; and thirdly, the...2003, Richard E. Speidel, Ian Ayres, Studies in Contract Law, page 907
- Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates.2011, Shubu Mukherjee, Architecture Design for Soft Errors, page 237
Examples of misspeculate in a sentence
- Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].2012, Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes, Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits Under Uncertainty, page 12:
- Any engine that speculates can also misspeculate and must provide means to detect and recover from that condition.2013, John Paul Shen, Mikko H. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, page 331:
Forms of misspeculate
| third-person singular present | misspeculates |
|---|---|
| present participle | misspeculating |
| past participle | misspeculated |
| past | misspeculated |
Origin of misspeculate
From mis- + speculate.
Words formed from misspeculate
Questions about misspeculate
- What does misspeculate mean?
- Misspeculate means to speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
- How do you use misspeculate in a sentence?
- Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].
- What part of speech is misspeculate?
- Misspeculate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misspeculate?
- The past tense of misspeculate is misspeculated.
Words near misspeculate in the dictionary
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