Misrecover

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.

    "The third situation in which Massaro et al. (2001) found BMS misrecovered the correct model a high percentage of the time was when Newton’s law (NMP) was compared with a weighted additive version of Newton’s law (WNAV)."

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"The third situation in which Massaro et al. (2001) found BMS misrecovered the correct model a high percentage of the time was when Newton’s law (NMP) was compared with a weighted additive version of Newton’s law (WNAV)."

Etymology

From mis- + recover.

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