1. to record (information, data, or an event) incorrectly or inaccurately

Examples

• The clerk misrecorded the patient's birth date in the hospital system.
• The temperature was misrecorded as 98 degrees instead of 89 degrees.
• If you misrecord the transaction, the accounts will not balance.
• The historian discovered that the event had been misrecorded in the original manuscript.
• The survey responses were misrecorded due to a data entry error.
• It is important not to misrecord attendance, as it affects student records.