Dictionary

misfeature en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/ (US)
• /ˌmɪsˈfiː.tjə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English feature English misfeature From mis- + feature.

Meanings

1. An undesirable or incorrect feature.
   • This may not appear to be a critical misfeature, and in fact I have on occasion come to rely upon this unintentional archive of data to recover the data[…] 2003, John Ray, Maximum Mac OS X Security:
   • He hath his Winter too of pale Misfeature, / Or else he would forego his mortal nature. 1818, John Keats, The Human Seasons:
   • Most recent research on modern open source codebases indicate that array covariance is extremely rarely used and is almost certainly a language misfeature. 2014, Benjamin J. Evans, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 149:

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