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▸ noun: A communication problem where a person seeking help (for example, from a computing helpdesk) provides misleadingly incomplete information about the source of the problem and thus receives inaccurate or unhelpful suggestions about how to fix it.
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▸ noun: A communication problem where a person seeking help (for example, from a computing helpdesk) provides misleadingly incomplete information about the source of the problem and thus receives inaccurate or unhelpful suggestions about how to fix it.
Similar:
miscommunication,
crossed wires,
mismessage,
mismapping,
mismessaging,
malcommunication,
miscomputation,
miscoding,
mixed signal,
misidentification,
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