miscodingn.
/ˌmɪsˈkəʊdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈkoʊdɪŋ/ 1. Incorrect coding; an instance of this.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > conversion into code > incorrectly
miscoding1949
1949 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 44 425 Natural unfamiliarity with a wide variety of trade names..led to miscoding.
1965 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 128 514 The presence of non-residential premises such as shops also makes for error,..but many of these miscodings would cause no bias.
1995 Washington Times 16 May a17/2 One of the most common types of abuse involves the miscoding of reimbursement claims.
2. Molecular Biology. The action of miscode v. 2.
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1965 Biochem. & Biophysical Res. Communications 21 339 (title) Fidelity in protein synthesis: proline miscoding in a thermophile system.
1977 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 111 1 The nature of the miscoding caused by growth in the presence of 2-thiouracil.
1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 13565/2 The primary ones are repair and the specificity and multiplicity of DNA polymerases, which are necessary for correction or prevention of miscoding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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