misspeculate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ speculate

Verb

misspeculate (third-person singular simple present misspeculates, present participle misspeculating, simple past and past participle misspeculated)

1. To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
   • 2003, Richard E. Speidel, Ian Ayres, Studies in Contract Law, page 907:

     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 law should not encourage those who misspeculate to escape obligation by claiming that the other person is, for some contrived reason, in breach.

   • 2011, Shubu Mukherjee, Architecture Design for Soft Errors, page 237:

     Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates.

   • 2012, Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes, Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits Under Uncertainty, page 12:

     Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].

   • 2013, John Paul Shen, Mikko H. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, page 331:

     Any engine that speculates can also misspeculate and must provide means to detect and recover from that condition.