misinstall

present singular third person misinstalls · participle present misinstalling · participle past misinstalled · past misinstalled

1. To install improperly or by mistake.

   Those experienced in such installations know what to do, but most construction crews do not—they will inevitably misinstall.

   2018, William D. Kimmel, Daryl Gerke, Electromagnetic Compatibility in Medical Equipment, page 227

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   If possible, the evaluator should insert the same type of defects (or simulate the defects) that occur in the components of the circuits involved. If a particular decoder chip on a certain board is often misinstalled, for example, one should misinstall the component.

   1984, Allan C. Stover, ATE: Automatic Test Equipment, page 187

   Thermostats are quite reliable, but may not work because they are misinstalled, fall out of adjustment, need cleaning, or because components malfunction.

   1996, Gene Schnaser, The Home Repair Emergency Handbook

   A family, school, society, or religion can misinstall our sexuality. Then that dimension of our personality does not work for us in healthy ways.

   2014, David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Love

   Malicious Apps often disguise as normal Apps, the common form is the free version of paid Apps, users often misinstall such malicious Apps.

   2021, Ding Wang, Weizhi Meng, Jinguang Han, Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments