miscontact

/mɪsˈkɒntækt/

miscontact noun: failure to make a proper contact.

Noun

miscontact (countable and uncountable, plural miscontacts)

Failure to make a proper contact.
- The progress of a production run can be reported by providing a count of pass / fail units and channel fails due to miscontacts ( see Fig. 7, bin count report).1984, K. M. Nair, Processing for Improved Productivity, page 112
- Bad contacts between metallic parts can be caused by corrosion, dust or dry pollution. Other factors causing miscontact are vibrations due to wind, insufficient mechanical loading and the changes in dimensions due to temperature variations.1997, Malik, Electrical Insulation in Power Systems, page 45
Contact that is inappropriate, mistaken, or destructive.
- It is a matter of impossibility for one to lose by being true and faithful, by being meek and lowly, true and Holy through concentration, but it IS possible for you to lose by a little misconduct, or miscontact, or misconception, or by an inharmonious recognition, or by an inharmonious attitude...1935, Father Divine, The Spoken Word - Volume 2, Issues 1-23, page 13
- When I snuff myself, I snuff my environment. And those I come into miscontact with are affected, and infected. I am communicable, contagious, catching.1992, The Gestalt journal - Volumes 15-16, page 64

miscontact (third-person singular simple present miscontacts, present participle miscontacting, simple past and past participle miscontacted)

To form a miscontact.
- NF relays wfll not miscontact through one million operations, and you can be 99% sure of it!1983, EDN. - Volume 28, page 24
- We now advise against dividing the thumb flexor pulley mechanism if the wrist extensors are a strong Grade 4 or 5 power as this results in excessive MPJ flexion, which causes the thumb tip to miscontact the side of the index finger when the patient attempts to grip.1996, Clayton Austin Peimer, Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity, page 1508

For the No. 7 bearing, low frequency components in the vicinity of 5Hz are distinctive showing the characteristic of miscontact of vibration transducer shoes.2014, G. Diana, Diagnostics of Rotating Machines in Power Plants, page 34:
Laced with humour, Armstrong's experience of Greece is conditioned by a series of miscontacts and attempts to adopt a miscellanea of postures, none of which is achieved successfully.2016, Churnjeet Mahn, British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914, page 121:
After elimination of errors by miscontacting, a new calibration is necessary.1999, Deutsches Institut für Normung, Environmental meteorology, meteorological measurements, page 113:

Noun
plural	miscontacts
Verb
third-person singular present	miscontacts
present participle	miscontacting
past participle	miscontacted
past	miscontacted

From mis- + contact.

What does miscontact mean?: Miscontact means failure to make a proper contact.
How do you use miscontact in a sentence?: For the No. 7 bearing, low frequency components in the vicinity of 5Hz are distinctive showing the characteristic of miscontact of vibration transducer shoes.
What part of speech is miscontact?: Miscontact can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce miscontact?: Miscontact is pronounced /mɪsˈkɒntækt/.
What is the plural of miscontact?: The plural of miscontact is miscontacts.

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