malfeature

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noun

A bad feature (cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing).

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounmalfeature (plural malfeatures)

plural malfeatures

  1. A bad feature (cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing).

    Questionable feature for af. Of interest to gps users on various Unix flavors.

    1986 July 15, Kaare Christian <kc@rna.UUCP>, "gps af malfeature", message-ID <518@rna.UUCP>, net.bugs, Usenet //groups.google.com/d/msg/net.bugs/6cTwhiUXI5Q/drZPNVjG1iEJ
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    One major malfeature of many present day trimarans is too much exposed window area.

    1971 February, Robert B. Harris, “Are Trimarans Seaworthy?”, in Motor Boating & Sailing, page 61

    This work is far from complete, and contains a number of malfeatures that are unfortunately hard-wired into the model.

    1991, Alan Jeffrey, "Abstract timed observation and process algebra", in, 1991, Jos C.M. Baeten and Jan Frisco Groote, editors, CONCUR '91 (proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Amsterdam, 1991), Springer, page 333 //books.google.com/books?id=DFKJDVM_OgAC&lpg=PA333&dq=%22malfeatures%22&pg=PA333

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