misjoin

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ join.

Verb

misjoin (third-person singular simple present misjoins, present participle misjoining, simple past and past participle misjoined)

1. To join wrongly or improperly.

Noun

misjoin (plural misjoins)

1. A wrong or erroneous join or juncture.
   • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:

     We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]

Anagrams

• Jimison