misprogram
verb[T]
(alsomis-program)uk/mɪsˈprəʊ.ɡræm/us/ˌmɪsˈproʊ.ɡræm/-mm-to make amistakewhen puttinginstructionsinto adevice,system, orcomputerprogram:
Engineers hadknockedthesystemout by misprogramming aroutingcomputer.
Thejetnarrowlyavoidedcrashingafterpilotsmis-programmedtheiraircraft'sflightcomputer.
- Ifevenasinglecellis misprogrammed, it can giveriseto atumourwhen it istransplanted.
- It was as if some keystrokes had been misprogrammed.
- It was astraightforwardselectionthat would bedifficultto mis-programinadvertently.
- The hyphenations,apparentlyperformedby a misprogrammedcomputer, had not beenreviewed.
Computer programming & software
- abandonware
- ad-blocker
- ad-blocking
- adware
- analytics
- cheat
- facial recognition
- facial recognition software
- femtech
- file system
- garbage collector
- infection
- planner
- routine
- software package
- splash screen
- story mode
- syntactic
- syntactically
- system software
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