misconvert

English

Etymology

mis- + convert

Verb

misconvert (third-person singular simple present misconverts, present participle misconverting, simple past and past participle misconverted)

  1. (transitive) To convert incorrectly.
    • 2007, Ian R. Bartky, One time fits all: the campaigns for global uniformity (page 222)
      Of the fifteen station entries in the Cork-London double timetable, Fleming misconverted all five Irish times by making them twenty minutes ahead of Greenwich instead of twenty-five minutes behind []
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