misimplant

Verb

misimplant (third-person singular simple present misimplants, present participle misimplanting, simple past and past participle misimplanted)

1. To implant incorrectly.
   • Moreover, it was an accidental finding resulting from a misimplanted electrode in an experiment originally designed to study the RAS.1967, Melvin Herman Marx, Tom M. Tombaugh, Tom N. Tombaugh, Motivation: Psychological Principles and Educational Implications, page 137
   • Internet chatter ebbed and flowed with a predictable, prescriptive voyeurism: some readers anguished over the woman's choice to terminate the pregnancy, while others puzzled over the lack of indignation (and indeed the sympathy) evinced by the couple whose egg had been misimplanted;2009, Eugenia Tsao, “Nature/Culture Dichotomies in Bioethics Debates”, in Science As Culture, volume 18, number 4

Noun

IPA/mɪsˈɪmplænt/

misimplant (plural misimplants)

1. An instance of misimplanting; misimplantation.
   • Using the procedure of inspection of one wafer from each cassette plus all wafers suspected by the operator of possible misimplant, an essentially total elimination of implant-related zero-yield wafers was achieved on a CMOS fab line providing high-performance VLSI devices1987, WL Smith, A Rosencwaig, DL Willenborg, J Opsal, MW Taylor, “Ion implant monitoring with thermal wave technology”, in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics; Research Section B: Beam...
   • This group had 3 of the 42 wafers excluded from the data base due to misimplants and/or difficulties in probing the resulting layers.1988, LA Larson, “An Industry‐Wide Evaluation of Ion Implant Dosing Accuracy”, in Journal of the Electrochemical Society, volume 135, number 7