mispick

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mispick

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From mis- + pick.

noun mispicks

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.
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.
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.

verb mispicks · mispicking · mispicked

transitive To pick incorrectly (any sense). "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.

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noun defect in woven fabric

Français	crapaud

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@misc{mispick_2026,
  title = {mispick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mispick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}