misclose
/ˈmɪskləʊz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
noun
The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.
verb
To fail to loop back to the starting point.
verb
To close improperly; to fail to shut properly.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The program also calculated the misclose ratio as a check to see if the garden measurement data had been taken accurately and entered correctly."
- "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."
- "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 appears to be satisfactory."
- "Having computed three miscloses from three initial guesses, Newtonian iteration is used to improve the guessed values in a semi-automatic manner."
- "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."