"misrepresentation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /mɪsˌɹɛpɹɪzɛnˈteɪʃən/ Audio: En-us-misrepresentation.ogg [US] Forms: misrepresentations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: mis- + representation or misrepresent + -ation Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|representation}} mis- + representation, {{suffix|en|misrepresent|ation}} misrepresent + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} misrepresentation (countable and uncountable, plural misrepresentations)
  1. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (erroneous statements, or the act of making these): misreprezentace [feminine] (Czech), verkeerde voorstelling [feminine] (Dutch), onjuiste weergave [feminine] (Dutch), väärinymmärrys (Finnish), väärinkäsitys (Finnish), image fausse [feminine] (French), déformation [feminine] (French), terxiversación [feminine] (Galician), falsche Darstellung [feminine] (German), Falschdarstellung [feminine] (German), Fehldarstellung [feminine] (German), travisamento [masculine] (Italian), calumnia [feminine] (Latin), തെറ്റായി അവതരിപ്പിക്കൽ (teṟṟāyi avatarippikkal) (Malayalam), തിരിമറി (tirimaṟi) (Malayalam), aweketanga (Maori), fałszywe przedstawienie [neuter] (Polish), wypaczenie [neuter] (Polish), zniekształcenie [neuter] (Polish), przekręcenie [neuter] (Polish), tergiversación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-misrepresentation-en-noun-DEtJTBkh Disambiguation of 'erroneous statements, or the act of making these': 53 18 29
  2. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-misrepresentation-en-noun-nNFOrGI3
  3. (cartography) Faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cartography
    Sense id: en-misrepresentation-en-noun-5C8EEUF0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-, English terms suffixed with -ation Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 23 66 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 12 23 66 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ation: 8 18 74 Topics: cartography, geography, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: misrepresent, misrepresentative, misrepresenter

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.