Misconvert

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To convert incorrectly. transitive

    "Of the fifteen station entries in the Cork-London double timetable, Fleming misconverted all five Irish times by making them twenty minutes ahead of Greenwich instead of twenty-five minutes behind[…]"

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"Of the fifteen station entries in the Cork-London double timetable, Fleming misconverted all five Irish times by making them twenty minutes ahead of Greenwich instead of twenty-five minutes behind[…]"

Etymology

From mis- + convert.

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