verb
- analyzes or breaks down (text, code, or language) incorrectly into its component parts
Usage: computing; linguistics
Examples
- The compiler misparses the syntax and throws an error.
- If the program misparses the input file, it will produce incorrect results.
- The natural language processor misparses complex sentences with multiple clauses.
- When the parser misparses the XML document, the data becomes corrupted.
- The system misparses ambiguous grammatical structures.
- If the algorithm misparses the command, it may execute the wrong function.