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mistranspose

mistranspose verb: to transpose by mistake.

Verb

mistranspose (third-person singular simple present mistransposes, present participle mistransposing, simple past and past participle mistransposed)

  1. To transpose by mistake.
    • Respecting the alleged error of the mistranspose of inventors' name, the inventors are printed in accordance with the Declaration submitted at the time of filing the application.2003, USPTO Image File Wrapper Petition Decisions 0141
    • Failure modes of the analyst are: the analyst omits (forgets) a specific user requirement, the analyst misunderstands (cognitive error) a specific user requirement, the analyst mistransposes (typographical error) a user requirement, the analyst fails to notice a conflict between two users'...2017, Jerry C. Whitaker, Electronic Systems Maintenance Handbook, pages 3-19

Forms of mistranspose

third-person singular presentmistransposes
present participlemistransposing
past participlemistransposed
pastmistransposed

Origin of mistranspose

From mis- + transpose.

Questions about mistranspose

What does mistranspose mean?
Mistranspose means to transpose by mistake.
What part of speech is mistranspose?
Mistranspose is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistranspose?
The past tense of mistranspose is mistransposed.

Words near mistranspose in the dictionary

  1. mistransmitting
  2. mistransport
  3. mistransported
  4. mistransporting
  5. mistransports
  6. mistranspose
  7. mistransposed
  8. mistransposes
  9. mistransposing
  10. mistrap
  11. mistrapped

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