Mispick
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
"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."
- 2 The accidental substitution of an incorrect item in the fulfilment of an order.
"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."
- 3 An incorrectly sampled data point.
"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."
- 1 To pick incorrectly (any sense). transitive
""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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From mis- + pick.
More for "mispick"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.