misclock

An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.

Noun

  1. An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.
    • When misclock occurs, it is recorded as an audio datum and an alarm is given. - 1978, Journal of the Radio Research Laboratories:
    • After each phase crossing there is a chance of a misclock being produced by jitter induced phase reversal at subsequent clocking edges. - 2002, The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, page 562:
    • We will present a model to determine this minimum difference frequency given the acceptable risk of a misclock. - 2002, I Shankar, SA Morris, CG Hutchens, “A novel frequency measurement technique for quartz microbalance...

Origin

From mis- + clock.

Forms

misclocks

Verb

  1. To cause or produce a misclock.
    • This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use. - 1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288:
    • We didn't get past the start. It was misclocked opened and we got too much lox flow in the main chamber early. - 1995, SSME Post Test Diagnostic System: Systems Section, page 57:
    • This occurred despite an alignment pin design feature to prevent misclocking. It occurred despite a sensitivity test of the system a few days before liftoff to confirm live activity and correct polarity of all of the...
  2. To clock incorrectly; to mistime.
    • How else could they misclock one of the disappearance intervals by more than a month? - 1993, Robert Paul Metzger, Transforming Texts: Classical Images in New Contexts, page 46:

Forms

misclocks misclocking misclocked