mispick

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ pick

Noun

mispick (plural mispicks)

1. (textiles) A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
   • 1972, Technology of the Textile Industry, U.S.S.R., page 76:

     To reduce the likelihood of a mispick the engagement should be delayed as long as possible so that when the loom stops, the reed is as close as possible to the cloth fell.

   • 1972, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, page 1350:

     The weft detector comprises a warp tension sensor for detecting the temporary rise during beating and a control circuit connected to the warp tension sensor for stopping the operation of the loom upon detection of the mispick, that is, in the absence of the temporary raise in the warp tension.

   • 2019, Kim Gandhi, Woven Textiles: Principles, Technologies and Applications, page 254:

     If a mispick occurs, the feature automatically removes the mispick and restarts the loom.

2. (business) The accidental substitution of an incorrect item in the fulfilment of an order.
   • 1992 May 11, James Daly, “McKesson Drug Curing inaccuracy of warehouse labor with wearable PCs”, in Computerworld, volume 26, number 19, page 61:

     Cohune said he estimates that each mispick costs about $80 in lost time and shipping costs — seven times more than filling a customer's order correctly the first time.

   • 2001, Dan Propster, An Analysis of Distribution Pack Policy at General Motors‎^[1], page 35:

     If this is indeed true, then the data will not appear to support the hypothesis that mispick probability should decrease with an increase in pack ratio.

   • 2011, Gwynne Richards, Warehouse Management, page 116:

     There are many calculations for the cost of a mispick.

3. (data processing) An incorrectly sampled data point.
   • 1994, Jean-Luc Mari, Francoise Coppens, Philippe Gavin, Full Waveform Acoustic Data Processing, page 24:

     Since the picking algorithm determines the wave arrival time by measuring the abscissa of an extremum, a genuine mispick can only correspond to a cycle skip.

   • 1994, Tien-when Lo, Philip L. Inderwiesen, Fundamentals of Seismic Tomography, page 108:

     If the picks appear to be different, then a mispick must have been made somewhere along the loop and should be rectified before you continue. All picks in the data set can and should be tied in this manner to provide consistency.

   • 2010, Christiane Maierhofer, Hans-Wolf Reinhardt, Gerd Dobmann, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete, page 348:

     Instead, mispicks, i.e. large picking errors that occur when ambiguities exist in recognizing the first arrival among multiple events, are expected to produce local artefacts in the final velocity map.

Translations

defect in woven fabric

• French: crapaud (fr) m

accidental substitution in an order

incorrect data sample

Verb

mispick (third-person singular simple present mispicks, present participle mispicking, simple past and past participle mispicked)

1. (transitive) To pick incorrectly (any sense).
   • 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People: A Novel, page 295:

     "This is a song for a friend of mine, same one I mentioned before as a matter of fact. You might know him," a note jangles, seemingly mispicked, but it comes again and again, until all ears are hearing it more than the surrounding chord.

   • 2009, Eldon Taylor, Mind Programming, page 53:

     Initiation into the psychological concepts and manipulative stratagems of the art course often comes as a shock to those naïve individuals the computer mispicked.

   • 2011, John M. Reynolds, An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, page xxx:

     In shallow seismic reflection profiling, as undertaken for marine dredge surveys, for instance, semi-automatic horizon picking software may miss or mispick events.

   • 2012, Mark England, This Lonely Incubus, page 240:

     Paul Cable hadn't done anything more wrong than to mispick a very minor item on a particularly large order, but it had opened the door of opportunity to rant his authority at the dumbfounded youngster, whilst attempting to get over a point.

   • 2016, Donald A. Herron, Interpreter Sam Carries On, page 92:

     Not because I mispicked those horizons, or because you think I did. I look back on the way I was then, a young, inexperienced interpreter who tried to autotrack everything.

   • 2016, Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold, page 73:

     'You just don't know me,' she'd say when he mispicked. 'I don't know what we're doing together.'