0 a calculation that has not been done correctly, or the act of calculating something wrongly:
The project went over budget because of a miscalculation at the planning stage.
They are calling for a recount because of errors and miscalculations in the compilation of the poll result.
The conspirators' plot failed because they made two fatal miscalculations.
I think they were trying to cover up for their grossly negligent political miscalculation.
1 the act of calculating an amount wrongly:
He said it was necessary to find out exactly how the miscalculation occurred.
Due to a slight miscalculation on my part, my new sofa wouldn't fit up the stairs.
This tactic has had the result of often leaving the left and the (authentic) centre without a visible enemy, thus leading to miscalculation and frustration.
A number of times he had lost followers due to political miscalculation by acting against the wishes of his clients.
The reports were silent on alleged miscalculations by the higher command.
Compared to this positional system, the usual methods of calculating with the abacus seemed to him themselves almost a kind of miscalculation.
Activist students and intellectuals are currently regarded as having brought victimisation upon themselves through egotism, elitism and gross miscalculation of possible outcomes.
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