adjective
- sent or directed along the wrong path or to the wrong destination
Usage: often used in telecommunications and logistics
verb
- past tense and past participle of misroute: to send or direct along the wrong path or to the wrong destination
Usage: technical usage
Examples
- The package was misrouted and ended up in the wrong state.
- Several phone calls were misrouted due to a system error.
- The airline misrouted our luggage to Chicago instead of Denver.
- Misrouted emails caused delays in the project timeline.
- The GPS system misrouted us through heavy traffic.
- Network administrators fixed the misrouted data packets.
- The postal service apologized for the misrouted mail.