The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscopy \Mis*copy"\, v. t. To copy amiss.
Miscopy \Mis*copy"\, n.
A mistake in copying.
--North Am. Rev.
Wiktionary
n. An imperfect copy. vb. To copy incorrectly; to copy with mistakes.
Usage examples of "miscopy".
The probability of any particular letter being miscopied on any one copying occasion turns out to be a little more than one in a billion.
Not only that but, since they automatically form lineages and are occasionally miscopied, later versions tend to be 'better' at making copies of themselves than earlier versions, because of the powerful processes of cumulative selection.
She found she'd miscopied the amount of interest income, and erased it carefully.
Aivas had made available a great deal of knowledge, some of it information miscopied over the Turns that only needed careful research in the Archives and invaluable to all the Crafts to rectify.
He does well, but sometimes I think he doesn’t at all understand what it is he is saving and thus unwittingly miscopies blurred words.
He does well, but sometimes I think he doesn't at all understand what it is he is saving and thus unwittingly miscopies blurred words.
They need not be fragmentary miscopies of something "real," dragging out their crippled spans until the nodal intelligence took pity and canceled them.
They need not be fragmentary miscopies of something “real,” dragging out their crippled spans until the nodal intelligence took pity and canceled them.
A conservative estimate is that, in the absence of natural selection, DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy 1 per cent of the characters.