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misinspection

misinspection noun: an inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.

Noun

misinspection (countable and uncountable, plural misinspections)

  1. An inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.
    • On-line installation of this inspection equipment resulted in a 20 % reduction in misinspection of defects in travelling strip.1985, Madhav N. Sinha, Walter W. O. Willborn, The Management of Quality Assurance, page 263
    • It doesn't do much good for your people to document the work they've done if you don't pay attention to what they've written. Incomplete misinspection — another dropped object.1987 September, “Chock Talk”, in TAC Attack, volume 27, number 9, page 14

Examples of misinspection in a sentence

  • Quality control, a separate department, spot checks first-line tubes ( those tubes passed by the inspectors ) for defects or other misinspections.1988, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 2:
  • Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects .2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64:

Forms of misinspection

pluralmisinspections

Origin of misinspection

From mis- + inspect + -ion.

Questions about misinspection

What does misinspection mean?
Misinspection means an inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.
How do you use misinspection in a sentence?
Quality control, a separate department, spot checks first-line tubes ( those tubes passed by the inspectors ) for defects or other misinspections.
What part of speech is misinspection?
Misinspection is a noun.
What is the plural of misinspection?
The plural of misinspection is misinspections.

Words near misinspection in the dictionary

  1. misinsertions
  2. misinserts
  3. misinspect
  4. misinspected
  5. misinspecting
  6. misinspection
  7. misinspections
  8. misinspects
  9. misinspiration
  10. misinspire
  11. misinspired

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