misquantify

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ quantify

Verb

misquantify (third-person singular simple present misquantifies, present participle misquantifying, simple past and past participle misquantified)

1. To quantify incorrectly.
   • 1957, Broadcasting, page 19:

     Anyone with the ability to misquantify from these base labels is on his own.

   • 2014, Mark Taylor-Batty, The Theatre of Harold Pinter, page 251:

     In the sketch Precisely (1983), over drinks two technocrats named Roger and Stephen flout their specialised knowledge and mock the populace for misquantifying predicted death tolls resultant from what is implied to be some kind of nuclear strike:

   • 2022 February, Duncan Holbrook‐Smith, Stephan Durot, Uwe Sauer, “High‐throughput metabolomics predicts drug–target relationships for eukaryotic proteins”, in Molecular systems biology, volume 18, number 2:

     The tradeoff for this throughput lies in the inability of the system to resolve compounds with the same molecular weight, and that it can misannotate ions or misquantify the abundance of ions that are in crowded regions of the mass spectrum.