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Meaning of misspeculate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.

Examples

“There is no reason why "aggrieved" persons should, by the contract law of damages, be put in a better position than they would have occupied had they performed; secondly, the agreed market and risk allocations should not be upset by the often unclear question of who was in breach; and thirdly, the law should not encourage those who misspeculate to escape obligation by claiming that the other person is, for some contrived reason, in breach.”
“Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates.”
“Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].”
“Any engine that speculates can also misspeculate and must provide means to detect and recover from that condition.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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