"misspeculate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + speculate",
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      "form": "misspeculated",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard E. Speidel, Ian Ayres, Studies in Contract Law, page 907",
          "text": "There is no reason why \"aggrieved\" persons should, by the contract law of damages, be put in a better position than they would have occupied had they performed; secondly, the agreed market and risk allocations should not be upset by the often unclear question of who was in breach; and thirdly, the law should not encourage those who misspeculate to escape obligation by claiming that the other person is, for some contrived reason, in breach.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Shubu Mukherjee, Architecture Design for Soft Errors, page 237",
          "text": "Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes, Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits Under Uncertainty, page 12",
          "text": "Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].",
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          "ref": "2013, John Paul Shen, Mikko H. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, page 331",
          "text": "Any engine that speculates can also misspeculate and must provide means to detect and recover from that condition.",
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        "To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture."
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  "word": "misspeculate"
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + speculate",
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