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单词 misidentification
释义
misidentification
noun[CorU]
(alsomis-identification)
uk
/ˌmɪs.aɪ.den.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌmɪs.aɪ.den.t̬ə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
theactofwronglysaying orthinkingthat someone or something is aparticularpersonor thing:
People have beenwronglyarrestedas aresultof misidentification.
The newsystemshouldresultin fewer misidentifications.
The men werearrestedandchargedbecause ofeyewitnessmis-identification.
Related words
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More examples
  • Biometrics are used topreventdeliberatemisidentification.
  • Eyewitness misidentification is the mostcommoncauseofwrongfulconvictions.
  • He said theproblemof misidentification ofpatientsinhospitalshad beenoverstated.
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(Definition ofmisidentificationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmisidentification

misidentification
Thus, we see outgroup derogation in the varying reactions to the perceivedmisidentificationof the speakers.
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The dangers of misattribution andmisidentificationof influences are manifold.
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It was the possibility ofmisidentificationwhich most distressed commentators and moralists, who continued to fret about the habits of common people.
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Differences in age assessments are likely explained bymisidentificationof molar positions in the original study and improved standards for dental maturation.
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It is unclear how the finding that vocalic context influencesmisidentificationbears on the markedness option, however.
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Data from the trials on whichmisidentificationerrors, anticipatory or abnormally slow responses occurred were excluded from further analysis.
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This record is based on amisidentificationof both the host and the parasitoid.
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This preoccupation is also apparent in an earlier article that experiments with gender reversal andmisidentificationin more direct ways.
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For some farmers (and not always the older ones), defective eyesight was the reason for insectmisidentification(usually ladybird eggs confused with aphids).
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For each task, the number ofmisidentificationerrors made by each subject was expressed as a percentage of the total number of trials.
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This is amisidentificationof the dynamics of play in the field.
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Of heuristic interest are neurological models, which include confabulation and delusionalmisidentificationand the one- versus two-stage (perceptual versus reasoning plus perceptual) accounts of the latter.
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In addition, there is concern that many of the phylogenies in different publications rely on the same, sometimes aged, lines which are more subject to laboratory error andmisidentification.
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This is almost certainly amisidentification.
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In fact, catatonia may represent a motoric/kinesthetic analog to mirrored self-misidentificationin that the patients have lost an explicit sense of relation between their limbs and body.
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