misduplicate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ duplicate

Verb

misduplicate (third-person singular simple present misduplicates, present participle misduplicating, simple past and past participle misduplicated)

1. To duplicate incorrectly.
   • 1999, Marc Smith, World Class: Conversations with the Bridge Masters, page 244:

     However, the board had actually been misduplicated — the N-S and E-W hands were switched in one room, so that we had held the same cards as our teammates.

   • 2015, James Tiptree, Jr., The Starry Rift:

     Now everyone should be asleep—unless somebody was suited up. So far only instants have passed; he has another three minim before the situation of any captives would become lethal, if he has misduplicated those frequencies.

   • 2017, Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, Will Straw, Improvisation and Social Aesthetics:

     The idea is not to break, or even to preserve, but to repeat; and to celebrate repetition, knowing that you will misduplicate—and that the misduplications are the closest achievable thing to an actual you” (Compton 2003b).