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misstrip

misstrip verb: to strip wrongly or in error.

Verb

misstrip (third-person singular simple present misstrips, present participle misstripping, simple past and past participle misstripped)

  1. To strip wrongly or in error.
    • Yet it is very desirable to provide improved, minimal, misstripping or jamming rates, especially for unattended or remote printers.1994 January 25, Zoran D. Popovic, United States Patent number 5282010
    • While the heated fuser roll structure 12 is constructed Such that it is Self-Stripping it will be appreciated that from time to time Substrate misstripping will occur.1999 February 16, Rabin Moser, United States Patent Number: 5,872,350

Noun

misstrip (plural misstrips)

  1. An instance of misstripping.
    • Stripping is avoided and therefore any possibility of misstrips removed.2013, E. Wolfendale, MOS Integrated Circuit Design, page 64
    • The harmonic current and voltage generated in operation of converter transformer under normal or faulty condition of the system shall not result in maloperation or misstrip of the AC system.2017, Hao Zhou, Wenqian Qiu, Ke Sun, Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Power Transmission, page 1356

Examples of misstrip in a sentence

  • Meanwhile, it works as the short-range backup protection when this line primary protection misstrips, and as overload protection.2017, Lijun Qin, Congge Li, Lei Hao, Huating Jiang, Zhuofan Tang, Xian Wang, “Research on the Influence of the Series Compensator on Relay...
  • The error rate is the sum of the misoperation rate and the misstrip rate.2019, Yuan Zeng, Yan LI, Yiming Yang, He Zhang, “A Commutation Failure Prediction Criterion Based on Feasible Region Theory”, in...

Forms of misstrip

Verb
third-person singular presentmisstrips
present participlemisstripping
past participlemisstripped
pastmisstripped
Noun
pluralmisstrips

Origin of misstrip

From mis- + strip.

Questions about misstrip

What does misstrip mean?
Misstrip means to strip wrongly or in error.
How do you use misstrip in a sentence?
Meanwhile, it works as the short-range backup protection when this line primary protection misstrips, and as overload protection.
What part of speech is misstrip?
Misstrip can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misstrip?
The past tense of misstrip is misstripped.

Words near misstrip in the dictionary

  1. misstrikes
  2. misstriking
  3. misstring
  4. misstringing
  5. misstrings
  6. misstrip
  7. misstripped
  8. misstripping
  9. misstrips
  10. misstroke
  11. misstroked

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