miscalibrationn.
/ˌmɪskalᵻˈbreɪʃn/, /mɪsˌkalᵻˈbreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪsˌkæləˈbreɪʃ(ə)n/ Incorrect or inaccurate calibration; an instance of this.
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1965 Fond Du Lac (Wisconsin) Commonw. Reporter 2 Nov. 2/5 The loss of several thousand pounds of milk..as a result of a miscalibration in his bulk milk tank.
1971 IEEE Trans. on Reliability 20 148/1 The technique is illustrated by application to miscalibration analysis.
1982 Sci. Amer. Oct. 36/3 The reports..are based on a miscalibration of one of the curves that relates measured seismic magnitude to explosive yield.
1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 348 407 Miscalibrations can lead to correlated errors among estimates.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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