MISCALCULATION


Meaning of MISCALCULATION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

make

You've made a serious miscalculation .

Orolowetsky makes no such miscalculations , but he seldom produces playing of real imagination either.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I thought if I told Mark everything, it would be OK. That was a bad miscalculation .

The President's election defeat was the result of his own miscalculations.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Alcohol might have played some part in this serious miscalculation .

But on the other side of the ledger, reduced operating expenses offset the miscalculations.

But seldom has a military miscalculation been so gross and retribution so immediate.

Maybe she missed the channel into Angle Inlet by only a fraction of a mile, a miscalculation of gradient or degree.

The house was, he thought, a monument to miscalculation .

There was one jaw-dropping miscalculation after another.

They are called: horrible blunders, astonishing lapses, incomprehensible oversights, gross miscalculations, and the like.

This is the point at which to take a second look at the miscalculations of the census.

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