Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misrelay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-re-lay
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.

noun

The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.

Example Sentences

"The nurse apparently misrelayed the message, telling her to go to her doctor in Dallas."
"He had misrelayed Mercy's number, but he had given Crawford all the information he needed to make his fortune serious."
"In this translational disjuncture lay not the kind of unintended misrelaying of information that occurs in the children's game of “telephone,” but, rather, motive and method."
"In [6], [7], the author proposed a simple mechanism to detect the link withholding and misrelay launched by MPR nodes based on overhearing of traffic generated by one-hop neighbors."
"In colluding misrelay attacks, multiple attackers work in collusion to modify or drop routing packets to disrupt routing operation in a MANET."
"A study by Kannhavong et al. (2007) shows the impact of a colluding misrelay attack on a mobile node network using OLSR as the routing algorithm."

Etymology

From mis- + relay.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

misrelays (present, singular) misrelaying (participle, present) misrelayed (participle, past) misrelayed (past) misrelays (plural)

Questions

What does misrelay mean?: To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.
Where does misrelay come from?: From mis- + relay.

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