mispicks

Noun

mispick (plural mispicks)

1. 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
2. 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
3. (data processing) 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

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