verb
- calculated or figured incorrectly
Usage: past tense and past participle of miscompute
Examples
- The accountant miscomputed the quarterly taxes.
- She miscomputed the distance and ran out of gas.
- The engineer miscomputed the load capacity of the bridge.
- He miscomputed his grade point average on the application.
- The software miscomputed the trajectory due to a coding error.
- They miscomputed the budget and overspent by thousands.