misindicate

Meanings

verbmisindicate (third-person singular simple present misindicates, present participle misindicating, simple past and past participle misindicated)

present singular third person misindicates · participle present misindicating · participle past misindicated · past misindicated

To indicate incorrectly.
The external monitor can be displaced and therefore misindicate the contraction’s duration and frequency.
1977, Constance A. Bean, “The Medical School and Gloria”, in Labor and Delivery: An Observer’s Diary: What You Should Know About Today’s Childbirth, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 193
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The external morphology of the terminal segments of the female abdomen of Piesma has given rise to various interpretations. In their 1975 publication, the authors corrected numerous errors by Wagner (1953, 1954, 1966) but misindicated the terminal cone to belong to the posterior gonapophyses.
1983, Ernst Heiss, Jean Péricart, “Revision of Palaearctic Piesmatida (Heteroptera)”, in Remigius Geiser, editor, Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, volume 73, Munich: Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, →ISSN, →OCLC, […], footnote 5, page 77
Further, when we talk about the malfunction of infant reflexes, we do not discuss them from an evolutionary point of view. Instead, we discuss them from a medical point of view. That is, both the Morrow and the palmomental reflexes can malfunction and they do so by misindicating the state of brain development.
2002, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, “On the Normativity of Functions”, in André Ariew, Robert Cummins, Mark Perlman, editors, Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Analysis: Functional Explanations Today), page 152