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💻 Corrupting data 🧪 Making impure
adulterating

adulterating

8.8
Making data untrustworthy by adding false or misleading information
  • adjective
  • /əˈdʌltəˌreɪtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : adulterante
  • The audit flagged adulterating data practices that introduced bias into the training set.

Examples

  • Cybersecurity teams monitor logs for signs of adulterating activity that could undermine system trust.

  • The audit flagged adulterating practices that undermined the integrity of the financial records.

  • Researchers discovered deliberate adulterating of the public dataset, which skewed the study's results.

  • The adulterating of data can lead to serious errors.

  • They are adulterating the records to hide mistakes.

  • Cybersecurity teams investigate adulterating activities that threaten the reliability of their data.

  • Researchers found evidence of adulterating information, which compromised the study's accuracy.

Synonyms

to poison
vsadulterating
97 4.4

To damage a relationship or group by spreading bad ideas

focuses specifically on contaminating digital records by adding misleading biased content
to adulterate
vsadulterating
  • Specialized
5 8.2

To make food or drink impure by adding cheaper ingredients

is about corrupting digital information by adding misleading or false elements

How Corrupt

to fabricate
50 7.3
adulterating
  • Specialized
8.8
tampering
58 5.8

Surface Forms

adulterating positive

Morphology

adulterating = adulterate (transparent) = adulterate + ing

Standard participial formation from 'adulterate'; the extension to digital/data contexts is a domain-specific application but the core idea 'making impure/corrupting' is preserved.

Etymology

Adulterating comes from the same Latin root alter meaning 'other', a useful way to remember that it is about adding 'other' things. So in data or computer work, adulterating data means adding false or biased pieces that make the information not trustworthy.