Misjoin

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A wrong or erroneous join or juncture.

    "We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To join wrongly or improperly.

Synonyms

All synonyms
misjoiningmisjuncturemisunion

Example

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"We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]"

Etymology

From mis- + join.

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