Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Misplacement.

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  • noun misplacement
  • noun incorrect specification of a location

Etymologies

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From mis- +β€Ž location

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Examples

  • For the two 1887 storms to actually be just one storm counted twice requires a misdating by 5 days, while the other two require both mislocation and some amount of misdating.

    Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit 2007

  • The mislocation of the Paris precipitation series was not corrected in the 2004 Corrigendum and, in the new SI, Paris precipitation is still shown with a New England location β€œThe rain in Maine falls mainly in the Seine.”

    The New Mann Paper « Climate Audit 2007

  • But that aside, the duplication of proxies, the mislocation of proxies (the pine we spline make past temps decline), the unreported processing steps, the misrepresentations of (or lack of understanding of) past analyses. . .

    Juckes Review « Climate Audit 2006

  • "Just a mislocation on a slider," Street said of Young's blast, "definitely not where I was trying to put it, and he beat me on it."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The vein of satire on the times; but this is not as in Shakspeare, where the natures evolve themselves according to their incidental disproportions, from excess, deficiency, or mislocation, of one or more of the component elements; but is merely satire on what is attributed to them by others.

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • This makes the eye look a lil bit weird from certain angles but the mislocation is only a few milimeters and not that bad. super rats Said,

    Anime Nano! 2010

  • There are three scenarios in which Acrobat. com addresses the challenge of what could be called content mislocation.

    Adobe Blogs 2008

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