Misfactor

Quick meaning: Misfactor is a verb meaning (mathematics) To err when determining the factors of.

Meaning

(mathematics) To err when determining the factors of.

More Meanings

1. To incorrectly analyze the role or importance of (something that influences or determines a result).
2. To refactor incorrectly.
3. A person or thing that causes or influences something to its detriment.

Example Sentences

After a moment's thought, the robot wrote out a polynomial and deliberately misfactored it.

The employees express their perceptions and feelings in their own langage, the discussions were videotaped, and used for decreasing misfactors such as misperceptions, misevaluations, and mistrust.

“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.

Word Forms

• misfactors
• misfactoring
• misfactored

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misfigure, miscompute, fault, misfinger, misfix, miscalculate.

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