Meaning of misfactor | Babel Free

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.”

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