verb
- past tense and past participle of misenter; to enter (data, information, etc.) incorrectly
Usage: computing; data entry
Examples
- She misentered the customer’s phone number in the database.
- The accountant misentered the invoice amount, causing a billing error.
- Several addresses were misentered during the data migration process.
- He realized he had misentered his password when the login failed.
- The survey results were skewed because many responses were misentered.
- Double-checking helps prevent misentered information in spreadsheets.