misidentify
Biometrics are used to prevent deliberate misidentification.
Eyewitness misidentification is the most common cause of wrongful convictions.
He said the problem of misidentification of patients in hospitals had been overstated.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Identifying
ascribe something to something
ascription
badged
badging
band
distinguishable
distinguishably
distinguishing
distinguishing feature
ear tag
microchip
microchipped
misidentify
over-identification
over-identify
passport
pick
stamp
unnameable
unplaceable

Examples of misidentification

misidentification
In addition, there is concern that many of the phylogenies in different publications rely on the same, sometimes aged, lines which are more subject to laboratory error and misidentification.
This is almost certainly a misidentification.
In fact, catatonia may represent a motoric/kinesthetic analog to mirrored self-misidentification in that the patients have lost an explicit sense of relation between their limbs and body.
Wrong parametrization may lead to misidentification of jump discontinuities that are located 'too' close together.
It is possible that additional forms exist within species that also exist in others; such a situation of undocumented shared forms can result in the misidentification of an unknown sample.
Thus, we see outgroup derogation in the varying reactions to the perceived misidentification of the speakers.
The dangers of misattribution and misidentification of influences are manifold.
It was the possibility of misidentification which most distressed commentators and moralists, who continued to fret about the habits of common people.
Differences in age assessments are likely explained by misidentification of molar positions in the original study and improved standards for dental maturation.
It is unclear how the finding that vocalic context influences misidentification bears on the markedness option, however.
Data from the trials on which misidentification errors, anticipatory or abnormally slow responses occurred were excluded from further analysis.
This record is based on a misidentification of both the host and the parasitoid.
This preoccupation is also apparent in an earlier article that experiments with gender reversal and misidentification in more direct ways.
For some farmers (and not always the older ones), defective eyesight was the reason for insect misidentification (usually ladybird eggs confused with aphids).
For each task, the number of misidentification errors made by each subject was expressed as a percentage of the total number of trials.
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