mispattern

Verb

mispattern (third-person singular simple present mispatterns, present participle mispatterning, simple past and past participle mispatterned)

1. To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.
   • The grievant testified that the decision whether or not to replace a screen was a matter of judgment and that the screens were replaced by him May 12 but that he did mispattern and misalign them so that they were again changed by him May 13.1982, Labor Arbitration Reports - Volume 78, page 228
   • We also introduced and ectopically expressed the E177A and EH mutant Shh constructs into Drosophila and compared their ability to mispattern the embryonic cuticle with that of wild-type Shh (30) and could detect no significant difference between them (H.E.F. Takahashi and P.A.B., unpublished data)...1999, Hans Neurath, Colloquium on Proteolytic Processing and Physiological Regulation

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪsˌpætə(ɹ)n/

mispattern (plural mispatterns)

1. A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.
   • Observation was taken several times for all the 256 patterns, but no mispattern was found.1960, Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo, Review - Volumes 8-9, page 246
   • So I think if you did get too much water floating around like that because of the fine spray it did create kind of a mispattern in the volume of the shower and it was objectionable to inhale it.2001, Design Concepts for Zero-G Whole Body Cleansing on ISS Alpha, page 35