MISRECKONING
Dictionary entry overview: What does misreckoning mean? • MISRECKONING (noun)
The noun MISRECKONING has 1 sense:
1. a mistake in calculating
Familiarity information: MISRECKONING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MISRECKONING (noun)
Meaning:
A mistake in calculating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning
Hypernyms ("misreckoning" is a kind of...):
error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misreckoning"):
backfire; boomerang (a miscalculation that recoils on its maker)
rounding; rounding error ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals)
truncation error ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished)
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