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Meaning of misfactor | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
/mɪsˈfæktə(ɹ)/

Definitions

  1. To err when determining the factors of.
  2. To incorrectly analyze the role or importance of (something that influences or determines a result).
  3. To refactor incorrectly.

Examples

“This teacher grades only on correct answer; there are no partial points for right completion but wrong answer. This frustrates me beyond belief; isn't the point of going to school to learn and be able to SHOW you know HOW to do the math even if somewhere along the line you misfactored or transposed numbers or whatever.”
“After a moment's thought, the robot wrote out a polynomial and deliberately misfactored it.”
““The vengefulness it must take to call me with that hand!” says Coren Mitchell. “It’s only because of the cage. You would never call me with that if it wasn’t for the cage…. Oh, I misfactored the cage!””
“On the other hand, I tend to think of ugly-but-descriptive-in-a-long-winded-way names as a red flag meaning "Here be dragons!" In other words, if you've had to spell out a word's behaviour in its name, you've perhaps misfactored something.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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