misquantify

To quantify incorrectly.

Verb

  1. To quantify incorrectly.
    • Anyone with the ability to misquantify from these base labels is on his own. - 1957, Broadcasting, page 19:
    • In the sketch Precisely (1983), over drinks two technocrats named Roger and Stephen flout their specialised knowledge and mock the populace for misquantifying predicted death tolls resultant from what is implied to be...
    • The tradeoff for this throughput lies in the inability of the system to resolve compounds with the same molecular weight, and that it can misannotate ions or misquantify the abundance of ions that are in crowded regions...

Origin

From mis- + quantify.

Forms

misquantifies misquantifying misquantified