misconvert

verb

misconvert

verb

Etymology From mis- + convert.

1

To convert incorrectly.

  • Of the fifteen station entries in the Cork-London double timetable, Fleming misconverted all five Irish times by making them twenty minutes ahead of Greenwich instead of twenty-five minutes behind[…]2007, Ian R. Bartky, One time fits all: the campaigns for global uniformity, page 222:
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