misinstall
To install improperly or by mistake.
Verb
- To install improperly or by mistake.
- If possible, the evaluator should insert the same type of defects (or simulate the defects) that occur in the components of the circuits involved. If a particular decoder chip on a certain board is often misinstalled,...
- Thermostats are quite reliable, but may not work because they are misinstalled, fall out of adjustment, need cleaning, or because components malfunction. - 1996, Gene Schnaser, The Home Repair Emergency Handbook:
- A family, school, society, or religion can misinstall our sexuality. Then that dimension of our personality does not work for us in healthy ways. - 2014, David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Love:
Origin
From mis- + install.