mispattern

A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.

Noun

A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.
- Observation was taken several times for all the 256 patterns, but no mispattern was found. - 1960, Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo, Review - Volumes 8-9, page 246:
- So I think if you did get too much water floating around like that because of the fine spray it did create kind of a mispattern in the volume of the shower and it was objectionable to inhale it. - 2001, Design Concepts...
- May those of an ancient way of the Cambodian see in their Asiatic wisdom's wind of change that the Kampuchean soul of their inner being will give heed through prayer, and sincere thoughts most importantly will heal...

From mis- + pattern.

To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.
- The grievant testified that the decision whether or not to replace a screen was a matter of judgment and that the screens were replaced by him May 12 but that he did mispattern and misalign them so that they were again...
- We also introduced and ectopically expressed the E177A and EH mutant Shh constructs into Drosophila and compared their ability to mispattern the embryonic cuticle with that of wild-type Shh (30) and could detect no...
- The micropyle is normally a derivative of animal pole follicle cells. It has been shown that loss of Buc from the oocyte is sufficient to mispattern the follicle cells, suggesting oocyte-derived signals are involved. -...