misdirection
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Noun
[edit]misdirection (countable and uncountable, plural misdirections)
- An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
- The magician used misdirection to get us to watch his left hand while he did something with his right hand.
- Movement or tendency in the wrong direction.
- (UK, law) An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court.
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