Meanings
present singular third person misduplicates · participle present misduplicating · participle past misduplicated · past misduplicated
- To duplicate incorrectly.
However, the board had actually been misduplicated — the N-S and E-W hands were switched in one room, so that we had held the same cards as our teammates.
1999, Marc Smith, World Class: Conversations with the Bridge Masters, page 2442 more examples
Now everyone should be asleep—unless somebody was suited up. So far only instants have passed; he has another three minim before the situation of any captives would become lethal, if he has misduplicated those frequencies.
2015, James Tiptree, Jr., The Starry RiftThe idea is not to break, or even to preserve, but to repeat; and to celebrate repetition, knowing that you will misduplicate—and that the misduplications are the closest achievable thing to an actual you” (Compton 2003b).
2017, Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, Will Straw, Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
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