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misidentifiˈcation
[mis-1 4.]
Erroneous identification.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 468/1 The chief defects in practice were (1) frequent failure to identify, (2) liability to mis-identification. 1946F. E. Zeuner Dating Past iii. v. 132 The implications of such misidentifications..are obvious. 1968Listener 27 June 828/3 Much more serious..is..the kind of terrible events which were foreshadowed in the novel Fail Safe, whereby one has accidental misidentification leading to some international disaster. 1973Nature 13 July 74/3 They criticize Theyer's micro⁓palaeontological work by giving chapter and verse on a series of supposed misidentifications and miscorrelations.
So misiˈdentify v., to identify erroneously.
1895L. Stejneger in Ann. Report U.S. Nat. Museum 1893 449 The specimens so recorded which I have had an opportunity to examine have either been misidentified, or else the locality was very doubtful. 1924Geogr. Jrnl. LXIV. 457 A marks the position of Camp IV. (26,700 feet) and G the point reached by Mallory, Norton, and Somervell in 1922, which was probably misidentified and placed too high in the theodolite measure of 1922, made in very difficult circumstances. 1951Essays in Crit. I. 332 He [sc. Iago] pretends ignorance, he pretends helpfulness, he intentionally misidentifies. 1952Mind LXI. 422 He misidentifies the test he is using. 1971Nature 19 Mar. 149/3 This name has been widely used for specimens of the genus in the Mediterranean and northern Europe. Templeman regards them all as having been misidentified. |