misorientationn.
/mɪsˌɔːrɪənˈteɪʃn/, /mɪsˌɔːrɪɛnˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪsˌɔriənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Differing or wrong orientation; the degree of this; an instance of this.
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1933 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 142 423 A small crystal mosaic (i.e., one in which the mis-orientation of the component blocks is sufficient to nullify the effects of extinction).
1952 Acta Crystallogr. 5 162 When aluminium is cold-rolled, the original grains break up into smaller particles. X-ray micro-beam back reflexion photographs permit the determination of the mean particle size and misorientation.
1975 H. M. Rosenberg Solid State xii. 198 The propagation of a single misorientation is called a spin wave.
1988 Nature 15 Sept. 204/2 [This] should be relatively harmless compared with misorientations with respect to the weakly conducting c-direction.
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