misclock

plural misclocks

1. businessAn error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.

   When misclock occurs, it is recorded as an audio datum and an alarm is given.

   1978, Journal of the Radio Research Laboratories

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   After each phase crossing there is a chance of a misclock being produced by jitter induced phase reversal at subsequent clocking edges.

   2002, The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, page 562

   We will present a model to determine this minimum difference frequency given the acceptable risk of a misclock.

   2002, I Shankar, SA Morris, CG Hutchens, “A novel frequency measurement technique for quartz microbalance systems and other resonator-based sensor systems”, in Proceedings: 2nd ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference

present singular third person misclocks · participle present misclocking · participle past misclocked · past misclocked

1. businessTo cause or produce a misclock.

   This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.

   1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288

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   We didn't get past the start. It was misclocked opened and we got too much lox flow in the main chamber early.

   1995, SSME Post Test Diagnostic System: Systems Section, page 57

   This occurred despite an alignment pin design feature to prevent misclocking. It occurred despite a sensitivity test of the system a few days before liftoff to confirm live activity and correct polarity of all of the rate gyros.

   2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, page 696

2. To clock incorrectly; to mistime.

   How else could they misclock one of the disappearance intervals by more than a month?

   1993, Robert Paul Metzger, Transforming Texts: Classical Images in New Contexts, page 46