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misclose (pluralmiscloses)
- (surveying) Thediscrepancy between thestarting point theendpoint of the shapereconstructed from themeasureddimensions andbearings of a boundary.
1989, National University of Singapore,Publications and Theses, page21:The use of the ratio of the linearmisclose to the total length traversed as an expression of traverse accuracy has been known to be theoretically weak since sampling distributions are unknown.
1994,Agricultural Census, 1993: Technical Report, page19:The program also calculated themisclose ratio as a check to see if the garden measurement data had been taken accurately and entered correctly.
2017, John Walker, Joseph L. Awange,Surveying for Civil and Mine Engineers, page18:Amisclose assessment should be undertaken to verify that forward and backward runs of a levelling travers, including any individual bays, are within the maximum allowablemisclose.
- (civil engineering, by extension) The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.
1974, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain),Proceedings - Volume 56, Part 1, page191:Of these papers it is interesting to note that the shape profile analysed according to the Anwar and Binnie methods contained minormiscloses under static conditions, whereas the Harrison computer-orientated method appears to be satisfactory.
1983, L. J. Morris,Instability and plastic collapse of steel structures, page57:Having computed threemiscloses from three initial guesses, Newtonian iteration is used to improve the guessed values in a semi-automatic manner.
1997, A. E. Kilpatrick, Balamuthu Vijaya Rangan, Curtin University of Technology. School of Civil Engineering,Deformation-control analysis of composite concrete columns, page39: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 ofN was incorrect.
misclose (third-person singular simple presentmiscloses,present participlemisclosing,simple past and past participlemisclosed)
- (surveying) To cause or exhibit a misclose.
1991, Romanus Nnubia Asoegwu,Professional Papers on Surveying Practice in Nigeria, page22:In some surveys angles of a traverse are known tomisclose up to 5° (five degrees) but the traverse is adjusted.
1997,Compass & Tape - Volumes 13-16, page23:Since the outer loop also contains the blundered angle, it should come as no surprise that it alsomiscloses by 2 degrees.
2003, Paul A. Cuomo,Surveying Principles for Civil Engineers, page47:The traversemiscloses by +0.44 ft in latitudes and +0.20 ft in departures. Consequently, to achieve closure, (+) latitudes must be reduced, (-) latitudes must be increased, (+) departures must be reduced, and (-) departures must be increased.
- (more generally) To fail to loop back to the starting point.
1962,The Australian Journal of Science, page371:Looked at as a single structure (Figure 2), the Tethyan Torsion Zone is a belt generally 1000 km or more wide, and a total length of some 40,000 km, which creeps southwards as it is followed eastward round the globe, so that the zonemiscloses its own beginning by about 60° (some 7000 km.)
1995, Roman Teisseyre,Theory of Earthquake Premonitory and Fracture Processes, page509:Another definition can be sometimes more useful: consider a closed loop which becomes broken andmisclosed due to anholonomic transformation.
- Toclose improperly; to fail toshut properly.
1952,Hitachi Review - Issues 1-7; Volume 0, page55:when the phases of both circuits synchronize and prevents themisclosing when the system disturbance is not in a proper condition to close.
1981, Luther Yates Gore,The Engineer in the Fabric of Responsibility, page101:Once more the ordinary person's common sense is roughly adequate to understand that since hydraulicallymisclosed doors leak or " bleed" continually, the chances of a catastrophic door blow-out and subsequent decompression are lessened.
2019, Shuai Han, Liang Ye, Weixiao Meng,Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks, page31:Environment type: temperature, humidity, electromagnetic, current exceed the threshold or change too much; typical misoperations such as mis-opening,misclosing, etc.
- Toclose (a deal) in error.
1993, Andoni Lizardy,Closing Tactics, page90:If you fail to qualify the client's needs well, you may make a poor presentation." "Ormisclose the customer," commented another seller.
