misreach
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reach inaccurately.
Example Sentences
- "When neurologically healthy individuals are first exposed to displacing prisms, they typically misreach in the direction of the visual displacement when pointing towards a visual target."
- "Classically, patients with visuomotor apraxia misreach for objects in the visual field contralateral to the lesion (Rondot et al 1977)."
- "Monkeys also show paucity of spontaneous movements in limbs contralateral to a lesion, misreach for targets and have difficulty in grasping."
- "Now the subject's misreach cannot be corrected if you don't give him information about his hand position ."
- "The number of trials to criterion, the total distance of misreach, and the distance of the initial misreach after donning the prism goggles were measured."
- "The extent of a misreach could be determined from a scale located on the back of the apparatus, invisible to the subject, and the subject's accuracy was noted after each attempt."