mispick
mispick noun: a defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
Noun
mispick (plural mispicks)
- A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
- To reduce the likelihood of a mispick the engagement should be delayed as long as possible so that when the loom stops, the reed is as close as possible to the cloth fell.1972, Technology of the Textile Industry, U.S.S.R., page 76
- The weft detector comprises a warp tension sensor for detecting the temporary rise during beating and a control circuit connected to the warp tension sensor for stopping the operation of the loom upon detection of the mispick, that is, in the absence of the temporary raise in the warp tension.1972, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, page 1350
- The accidental substitution of an incorrect item in the fulfilment of an order.
- Cohune said he estimates that each mispick costs about $80 in lost time and shipping costs — seven times more than filling a customer's order correctly the first time.1992 May 11, James Daly, “McKesson Drug Curing inaccuracy of warehouse labor with wearable PCs”, in Computerworld, volume 26, number 19, page 61
- If this is indeed true, then the data will not appear to support the hypothesis that mispick probability should decrease with an increase in pack ratio.2001, Dan Propster, An Analysis of Distribution Pack Policy at General Motors, page 35
- An incorrectly sampled data point.
- Since the picking algorithm determines the wave arrival time by measuring the abscissa of an extremum, a genuine mispick can only correspond to a cycle skip.1994, Jean-Luc Mari, Francoise Coppens, Philippe Gavin, Full Waveform Acoustic Data Processing, page 24
- If the picks appear to be different, then a mispick must have been made somewhere along the loop and should be rectified before you continue. All picks in the data set can and should be tied in this manner to provide consistency.1994, Tien-when Lo, Philip L. Inderwiesen, Fundamentals of Seismic Tomography, page 108
Verb
mispick (third-person singular simple present mispicks, present participle mispicking, simple past and past participle mispicked)
- To pick incorrectly (any sense).
- "This is a song for a friend of mine, same one I mentioned before as a matter of fact. You might know him," a note jangles, seemingly mispicked, but it comes again and again, until all ears are hearing it more than the surrounding chord.2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People: A Novel, page 295
- Initiation into the psychological concepts and manipulative stratagems of the art course often comes as a shock to those naïve individuals the computer mispicked.2009, Eldon Taylor, Mind Programming, page 53
Examples of mispick in a sentence
- If a mispick occurs, the feature automatically removes the mispick and restarts the loom.2019, Kim Gandhi, Woven Textiles: Principles, Technologies and Applications, page 254:
- There are many calculations for the cost of a mispick.2011, Gwynne Richards, Warehouse Management, page 116:
- In shallow seismic reflection profiling, as undertaken for marine dredge surveys, for instance, semi-automatic horizon picking software may miss or mispick events.2011, John M. Reynolds, An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, page xxx:
- Not because I mispicked those horizons, or because you think I did.2016, Donald A. Herron, Interpreter Sam Carries On, page 92:
Forms of mispick
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mispicks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mispicks |
| present participle | mispicking |
| past participle | mispicked |
| past | mispicked |
Origin of mispick
From mis- + pick.
Questions about mispick
- What does mispick mean?
- Mispick means a defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
- How do you use mispick in a sentence?
- If a mispick occurs, the feature automatically removes the mispick and restarts the loom.
- What part of speech is mispick?
- Mispick can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of mispick?
- The plural of mispick is mispicks.
Words near mispick in the dictionary
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