to misclassify
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5.7
- verb
- /ˌmɪsˈklæsɪˌfaɪ/
- The teacher was careful not to misclassify any students when sorting them into groups based on their skills.
- misclassified children
- misclassified subjects
- misclassified people
Examples
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However, no items could be identified that were consistently misclassified across subjects.
Academic text (2013) -
The MEPS-HC relies on self-reports for diagnoses, and therefore some individuals may have been misclassified.
Academic text (2011) -
Or I could put my classifier here and it will misclassify some of these cats as dogs.
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Clearly, it is possible that these children are being misclassified because their difficulties are not well understood.
Academic text (1992) -
Therefore, it might be the case that some children in the current study were misclassified as TD based on these measures.
Academic text (2012) -
First, let's figure out which data points are misclassified by each of these classifiers.
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The shadows cast by tree canopies were also misclassified as water.
Academic text (2017) -
To check on whether these children were misclassified as gifted or highly gifted, anecdotal information was requested from their teachers.
Academic text (2006) -
For one method, nearly one-third of the geriatric subjects were misclassified.
Academic text (1992) -
The same three misclassified samples were identified for all tests, indicating a satisfactory robustness of the fractal-SVM classifier.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
8
6.5
Say a person or thing is a different one
6
4.1
To give something the wrong name
4
5.1
Having a wrong label that gives false information about a product
1
6.9
To mark something with the wrong label
1
6.9
To put something in the wrong group by mistake
1
8.1
Mistake a person or object for a different one
How Correct
- US
53
3.5
1
5.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Misclassify is made of mis- meaning 'wrong' and classify, from class meaning 'group'. So, to misclassify something is to put it into the 'wrong group' by mistake.