misjoin

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verb

To join wrongly or improperly.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbmisjoin (third-person singular simple present misjoins, present participle misjoining, simple past and past participle misjoined)

present singular third person misjoins · participle present misjoining · participle past misjoined · past misjoined

  1. To join wrongly or improperly.
nounmisjoin (plural misjoins)

plural misjoins

  1. A wrong or erroneous join or juncture.

    We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]

    2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313

    Synonyms: misjoining, misjuncture

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA wrong or erroneous join or juncture.

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