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MISFEATURE

Definition: MISFEATURE

MISFEATURE

Noun

1. Ill feature.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MISFEATURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Note: Misfeature \Mis*fea"ture\, noun. Ill feature.. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: MISFEATURE

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Misfeature /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. [common] A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved. Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug. Nor is it a simple unforeseen side effect; the term implies that the feature in question was carefully planned, but its long-term consequences were not accurately or adequately predicted (which is quite different from not having thought ahead at all). A misfeature can be a particularly stubborn problem to resolve, because fixing it usually involves a substantial philosophical change to the structure of the system involved. Many misfeatures (especially in user-interface design) arise because the designers/implementors mistake their personal tastes for laws of nature. Often a former feature becomes a misfeature because trade-offs were made whose parameters subsequently change (possibly only in the judgment of the implementors). "Well, yeah, it is kind of a misfeature that file names are limited to six characters, but the original implementors wanted to save directory space and we're stuck with it for now.". Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MISFEATURE

Specialty definitions using "MISFEATURE": case sensitivity ♦ featurectomy ♦ screwage ♦ That's not a bug, that's a feature! ♦ vaxocentrism ♦ workaround. (references)

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Rhyming with "MISFEATURE"

Words rhyming with "MISFEATURE" (pronounced 'Mis*fea"ture'): Acture, Admixture, Affixture, Anfracture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, Attainture, Aventure, Belecture, Cincture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Conjuncture, Connature, Constructure, Contexture, Contracture, Creature, Decocture, Defeature, Dejecture, feature, fixture, Fructure, Galvanopuncture, imposture, intermixture, juncture, Loture, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Pisciculture, Pretexture, Pretorture, Projecture, Prompture. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MISFEATURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-m-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: furmeties.

-2 letters: emeritas, emeritus, emirates, features, fremitus, muriates, steamier, tumefies.

-3 letters: aeriest, afreets, atriums, austere, emerita, emirate, faeries, fairest, feaster, feature, fermate, firmest, freesia, fumiest, fustier, imarets, maestri, maftirs, matures, measure, meatier, metiers, misrate, muriate, mustier, reemits, refutes, remates, reteams, retimes, seamier, seriate, seriema, smartie, steamer, strumae, surfeit, triseme, uremias.

-4 letters: aeries, afreet, afrits.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-m-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: amentiferous.

 

+3 letters: metalliferous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MISFEATURE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 53 46 45 41 54 55 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    ...    ..-.    .    .-    -    ..-    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01010011 01000110 01000101 01000001 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#83 &#70 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0053 0046 0045 0041 0054 0055 0052 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47435340393554555239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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