misspeculate

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verb

To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbmisspeculate (third-person singular simple present misspeculates, present participle misspeculating, simple past and past participle misspeculated)

present singular third person misspeculates · participle present misspeculating · participle past misspeculated · past misspeculated

  1. To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.

    Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].

    2012, Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes, Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits Under Uncertainty, page 12
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    There is no reason why "aggrieved" persons should, by the contract law of damages, be put in a better position than they would have occupied had they performed; secondly, the agreed market and risk allocations should not be upset by the often unclear question of who was in breach; and thirdly, the law should not encourage those who misspeculate to escape obligation by claiming that the other person is, for some contrived reason, in breach.

    2003, Richard E. Speidel, Ian Ayres, Studies in Contract Law, page 907

    Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates.

    2011, Shubu Mukherjee, Architecture Design for Soft Errors, page 237

    Any engine that speculates can also misspeculate and must provide means to detect and recover from that condition.

    2013, John Paul Shen, Mikko H. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, page 331

Origin

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Chicago

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