Definition of "misconfiguration" [misconfiguration]

• An incorrect or inappropriate configuration (noun)

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• "Due to a misconfiguration in some of our servers, we weren't filtering out spam for about 1% of Gmail users."
• "We promptly fixed the problem, which turned out to be just a misconfiguration, but it sure was good to have the ISP notice and act on it."
• "Facebook gave little detail about the cause of the outage except to say that it was the result of a misconfiguration in one of its databases, which prompted a flood of traffic from an automated system trying to fix the error."