misclosuren.
/mɪsˈkləʊʒə/, U.S. /mɪsˈkloʊʒər/ Surveying.
(a) The sum of the errors in the observed measured distances between stations in a closed traverse; also in positional misclosure. (b) The sum of the errors in the observed measured angles between stations in a closed traverse; also in angular misclosure.
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1934 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 18 123 The residual found on closing the traverse has been termed the ‘misclosure’.
1934 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 18 123 The misclosure of each of the traverses used has been plotted without regard to sign.
1966 J. Clendinning Princ. Surveying (ed. 3) 339 The method of equal shifts, so called because, in satisfying each condition that the adjusted angles must fulfil, the misclosure is distributed equally between the angles involved.
1984 W. Schofield Engin. Surveying (ed. 3) 1 ii. 21 It must be closed back into a known BM to ascertain the misclosure error.
1990 Science 247 1316/2 For the summit region, error estimates are obtained from the loop misclosures for each survey.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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