Misnomer
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- A use of a term asserted to be misleading.
- Calling it a driveway is a bit of a misnomer, since you don't drive on it, you park on it.
- A term asserted to be widely used incorrectly.
- Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.
- A term whose sense in common usage conflicts with a technical sense.
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Usage notes
The term Template:Term is sometimes used as misnomer of "something asserted not to be true; a myth", as in the following example:
- * It's a misnomer that engineers can't write.
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