0 the act of forming a wrong understanding of something that is said or done, or an example of a wrong understanding:
The statement is unclear and open to misinterpretation (= could easily be misinterpreted).
This is a deliberate misinterpretation of events.
He is not responsible for any errors or misinterpretations in this essay.
The report said mistakes happened because of a misinterpretation of the law.
I think there was misinterpretation of his remarks by the media.
The possibility exists that a patient's decision has been made on inaccurate information or misinterpretation of data through inadequate understanding of medical jargon.
It is prone to misinterpretation since location is fundamental to measurement (given the energy expended on transport).
Electoral corruption therefore continues to be the subject to easy judgements and misinterpretation.
It is worth mentioning that misinterpretation of the instructions does lead to a gross navigational error that is undetectable.
In such cases, the problem of ontology mismatch is not so much the danger of misinterpretation as of incomprehensibility.
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