misclose

The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.

Noun

  1. The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
    • The use of the ratio of the linear misclose to the total length traversed as an expression of traverse accuracy has been known to be theoretically weak since sampling distributions are unknown. - 1989, National...
    • The program also calculated the misclose ratio as a check to see if the garden measurement data had been taken accurately and entered correctly. - 1994, Agricultural Census, 1993: Technical Report, page 19:
    • A misclose assessment should be undertaken to verify that forward and backward runs of a levelling travers, including any individual bays, are within the maximum allowable misclose. - 2017, John Walker, Joseph L....
  2. The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.
    • Of these papers it is interesting to note that the shape profile analysed according to the Anwar and Binnie methods contained minor miscloses under static conditions, whereas the Harrison computer-orientated method...
    • Having computed three miscloses from three initial guesses, Newtonian iteration is used to improve the guessed values in a semi-automatic manner. - 1983, L. J. Morris, Instability and plastic collapse of steel...
    • This process was repeated for all nodes along the column and the resulting deflection (misclose) at the top of the column of -0.298 mm indicated that the chosen trial value of N was incorrect. - 1997, A. E. Kilpatrick,...

Origin

From mis- + close.

Forms

miscloses

Verb

  1. To cause or exhibit a misclose.
    • In some surveys angles of a traverse are known to misclose up to 5° (five degrees) but the traverse is adjusted. - 1991, Romanus Nnubia Asoegwu, Professional Papers on Surveying Practice in Nigeria, page 22:
    • Since the outer loop also contains the blundered angle, it should come as no surprise that it also miscloses by 2 degrees. - 1997, Compass & Tape - Volumes 13-16, page 23:
    • The traverse miscloses by +0.44 ft in latitudes and +0.20 ft in departures. Consequently, to achieve closure, (+) latitudes must be reduced, (-) latitudes must be increased, (+) departures must be reduced, and (-)...
  2. To fail to loop back to the starting point.
    • Looked at as a single structure (Figure 2), the Tethyan Torsion Zone is a belt generally 1000 km or more wide, and a total length of some 40,000 km, which creeps southwards as it is followed eastward round the globe, so...
    • Another definition can be sometimes more useful: consider a closed loop which becomes broken and misclosed due to anholonomic transformation. - 1995, Roman Teisseyre, Theory of Earthquake Premonitory and Fracture...
  3. To close improperly; to fail to shut properly.
    • when the phases of both circuits synchronize and prevents the misclosing when the system disturbance is not in a proper condition to close. - 1952, Hitachi Review - Issues 1-7; Volume 0, page 55:
    • Once more the ordinary person's common sense is roughly adequate to understand that since hydraulically misclosed doors leak or " bleed" continually, the chances of a catastrophic door blow-out and subsequent...
    • Environment type: temperature, humidity, electromagnetic, current exceed the threshold or change too much; typical misoperations such as mis-opening, misclosing, etc. - 2019, Shuai Han, Liang Ye, Weixiao Meng,...
  4. To close (a deal) in error.
    • If you fail to qualify the client's needs well, you may make a poor presentation." "Or misclose the customer," commented another seller. - 1993, Andoni Lizardy, Closing Tactics, page 90:

Forms

miscloses misclosing misclosed