noun
- the act of copying something incorrectly
verb
- present participle of miscopy; copying something incorrectly
Examples
- The student’s miscopying of the formula led to wrong answers.
- Careful proofreading can prevent miscopying of important documents.
- She was miscopying the phone numbers from the directory.
- The clerk’s miscopying of addresses caused delivery problems.
- Miscopying data can result in serious errors in research.
- He kept miscopying the chemical equation despite multiple attempts.