mispattern

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ pattern

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈpætə(ɹ)n/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsˌpætə(ɹ)n/

Verb

mispattern (third-person singular simple present mispatterns, present participle mispatterning, simple past and past participle mispatterned)

1. To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.
   • 1982, Labor Arbitration Reports - Volume 78, page 228:

     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 changed by him May 13.

   • 1999, Hans Neurath, Colloquium on Proteolytic Processing and Physiological Regulation:

     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with that of wild-type Shh (30) and could detect no significant difference between them (H.E.F. Takahashi and P.A.B., unpublished data) further substantiating dispensability of catalytic activity for Shh-N signalling function in the context of developing Drosophila embryos.

   • 2017, Douglas W Houston, Cell Polarity in Development and Disease, page 11:

     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.

Noun

mispattern (plural mispatterns)

1. A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.
   • 1960, Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo, Review - Volumes 8-9, page 246:

     Observation was taken several times for all the 256 patterns, but no mispattern was found.

   • 2001, Design Concepts for Zero-G Whole Body Cleansing on ISS Alpha, page 35:

     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.

   • 2014, Ted Hodge, Massachusetts Project Word Problems:

     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 those who had witnessed the skulled and skeletoned puddle filths of those zone sectors of the wrong which stemmed from other types of mis-patterns of political history and not that of the communist way which the common American has become far to paranoid and steriotypical of.