misfilter

M3I1S1F4I1L1T1E1R1

verb

To filter incorrectly.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbmisfilter (third-person singular simple present misfilters, present participle misfiltering, simple past and past participle misfiltered)

present singular third person misfilters · participle present misfiltering · participle past misfiltered · past misfiltered

  1. To filter incorrectly.

    You have to listen and view objectively in order not to misfilter the interviewee's responses.

    1962, Benjamin Balinsky, The Selection Interview: Essentials for Management, page 8
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    Like the misguided fear among evolutionists that the Badwin Effect commits the sin of Lamarckism, and Darwin's own precipitous flight from Catastrophism, the indiscriminate rejection of anything that smacks of behaviorism by the "thoroughly modern mentalists" (Fodor 1980) is an instance of misfiltered memes.

    1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, page 403

    We have no other filters for screening the truth of being, and the misfiltering of that truth is permanent.

    2002, Leon Katz, Classical Monologues from Aeschylus to Bernard Shaw, page xx

    For example, elevated levels of protein in urine suggest that the kidneys are misfiltering and removing some proteins that the body needs.

    2004, Robert M. Kaplan, “Behavior As the central Outcome in Health Care”, in William D. Marelich, Dr Jeff S Erger, editors, The Social Psychology of Health: Essays and Readings, page 79

    As cataloged in grisly empirical detail in [ 22 ] , packet filters can also record packets more than once (with different timestamps for the different copies), reorder the sequencing of packets (again, the timestamps do not reveal the reordering), fail to report dropped packets, falsely report dropped packets when in fact no drops occurred, and misfilter ( making incorrect decisions on which packets match the filter).

    2004, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, page 265

    The onslaught of spam is a problem that can be nuanced and ever-changing, so it's a tricky one for AI, but on the other hand, most of us are willing to put up with the occasional misfiltered message if it means our inboxes are mostly clear.

    2019, Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

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