Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misassembly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-as-sem-bly
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Wrong or defective assembly.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"After computer assembly, a finishing phase ensues, wherein the gaps between assembled contigs are closed experimentally, and any misassembly is resolved."
"Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects."
"We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]"

Etymology

From mis- + assembly.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Usage

Inflected Forms

misassemblies (plural)

Questions

What does misassembly mean?: Wrong or defective assembly.
Where does misassembly come from?: From mis- + assembly.

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