单词 | misconnection |
释义 | misconnectionn. Wrong, faulty, or inadequate connection of things; an instance of this.In quot. 1968 concrete: a badly connecting train. ΚΠ 1784 E. Allen Reason xiv. §3. 477 Misconnection of ideas is the same as misjudging, and has no positive existence. 1852 Littell's Living Age 9 Oct. 91/1 The misconnection was clearly not confined to Mr. Webster, nor to those whom he addressed. 1912 A. B. Paine Mark Twain II. cxxi. 648 They were, in fact, delayed here and there by misconnections and the continued terrific weather, barely reaching Liverpool in time for their sailing date, August 23d. 1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. iv. 71 Even the unified Turkic alphabet..is inadequate because of the phonetic misconnections of several of the characters. 1968 P. Geddes High Game v. 58 A misconnection to Guildford, two unobtainable signals and nine minutes later he had finally made it. 1991 Discover Dec. 49/3 Cohen thinks these misconnections don't interfere with simple functions like a lamprey's swimming which is just an s-shaped travelling wave. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1784 |
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