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misengineer

verb

Etymology

From mis- + engineer.

  1. derived from ingegniere — “engineer”
  2. derived from engigneour
  3. derived from ingénieur
  4. derived from *ǵenh₁-✻ — “to beget, give birth to; to produce”
  5. derived from ingenium — “innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”
  6. derived from engigneor
  7. derived from enginour
  8. inherited from enginour — “one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”
  9. prefixed as misengineer — “mis + engineer”

Definitions

  1. To engineer badly or wrongly.

    • Software is engineered (or perhaps misengineered) in all sorts of environments.
    • It has no toxicological constraints other than the obvious but unlikely possibility of asphyxiation in a grossly misengineered and mismanaged production situation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA