missplit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To split incorrectly.
verb
To incompletely sever the spinal column with a saw.
noun
An instance or result of missplitting (any sense)
Example Sentences
- "In the 1953 program, it was more or less a crash progam in which the Bureau of the Budget on one day told us we could come up here with so much money and that night at 4 o'clock in the morning they finally finished splitting items, and they missplit this particular item and had the estimate too low ."
- "Also if you missplit, you can just undo it and skip the split."
- "The modern meaning of cyber- is heavily influenced by Gibson's cyberspace, but he wasn't actually the first to missplit it."
- "After observing them at work for some 5 minutes, Ludlow concluded it was Beedle who missplit 10 to 30 percent of the cattle he sawed."
- "The likelihood that missplitting will occur depends on the size and age of the animal (e.g. calves are less likely to be missplit than bulls or cows) and the proficiency of the saw operator."
- "Plants should have protocols for handling missplit carcasses."