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Two things that walked into a room and immediately disagreed about being there together.
means Instances where pairs of things fail to correspond, align, or fit as they should.
from Built from match, a fifteenth-century word for a companion or equal, plus mis-, the Old English prefix meaning wrongly or badly — literally a wrong pairing.
Tech meaningIn code, where compared values refuse to agree.
GeneticsDNA mismatches trigger repair enzymes to scrub errors.
Tennis lineageMatch meant a contest between equals before mis- spoiled it.