Munge

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.

2.VerbTo add a spamblock to (an email address).

3.VerbTo corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.

"It looks like this record is munged—it has this person’s birth date, but his father’s death date."

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