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Meaning of misfilter | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To filter incorrectly.

Examples

“You have to listen and view objectively in order not to misfilter the interviewee's responses.”
“Like the misguided fear among evolutionists that the Badwin Effect commits the sin of Lamarckism, and Darwin's own precipitous flight from Catastrophism, the indiscriminate rejection of anything that smacks of behaviorism by the "thoroughly modern mentalists" (Fodor 1980) is an instance of misfiltered memes.”
“We have no other filters for screening the truth of being, and the misfiltering of that truth is permanent.”
“For example, elevated levels of protein in urine suggest that the kidneys are misfiltering and removing some proteins that the body needs.”
“As cataloged in grisly empirical detail in [ 22 ] , packet filters can also record packets more than once (with different timestamps for the different copies), reorder the sequencing of packets (again, the timestamps do not reveal the reordering), fail to report dropped packets, falsely report dropped packets when in fact no drops occurred, and misfilter ( making incorrect decisions on which packets match the filter).”
“The onslaught of spam is a problem that can be nuanced and ever-changing, so it's a tricky one for AI, but on the other hand, most of us are willing to put up with the occasional misfiltered message if it means our inboxes are mostly clear.”

CEFR level

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

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