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mistranslations

mistranslations is the plural of mistranslation.

Meaning of mistranslation

Noun

mistranslation (countable and uncountable, plural mistranslations)

  1. An incorrect translation.
    • MORE mischief has been done to the cause of truth by mistranslations of, and consequent miscomments on the holy scripture, than is at first thought imagined or perceived.1824, S H. Jackson, The Jew
  2. The incorporation of the incorrect amino acid into a peptide sequence.

Questions about mistranslations

What is mistranslations the plural of?
Mistranslations is the plural of mistranslation.

Words near mistranslations in the dictionary

  1. mistranslated
  2. mistranslates
  3. mistranslating
  4. mistranslation
  5. mistranslational
  6. mistranslations
  7. mistransliterate
  8. mistransliterated
  9. mistransliterates
  10. mistransliterating
  11. mistransliteration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistranslations (page history and authors); mistranslation (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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