misduplication
English
Etymology
mis- + duplication
Noun
misduplication (countable and uncountable, plural misduplications)
- incorrect duplication
- 1967, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan - Volume 40, page 25:
- According to our previous paper, proton tunneling lead to the misduplication of DNA; that is, in the case of excitation of an electron by light the misduplication of DNA by means of the proton tunneling can more easily occur in the adenine-thymine pair than in the guanine-cytosine pair.
- 2001, Wayde Compton, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature:
- There is change, but the changes arise out of slight misduplications of the pattern rather than from essential antagonisms.
- 2013, Molly Brogan, Chasing Twilight:
- When I saw those words I guess I lost my concentration and thought you were thinking something else. Sorry for the misduplication.
Related terms
- misduplicate