misinspection

plural misinspections

1. countableuncountableAn inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.

   On-line installation of this inspection equipment resulted in a 20 % reduction in misinspection of defects in travelling strip.

   1985, Madhav N. Sinha, Walter W. O. Willborn, The Management of Quality Assurance, page 263

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   It doesn't do much good for your people to document the work they've done if you don't pay attention to what they've written. Incomplete misinspection — another dropped object.

   1987 September, “Chock Talk”, in TAC Attack, volume 27, number 9, page 14

   Quality control, a separate department, spot checks first-line tubes ( those tubes passed by the inspectors ) for defects or other misinspections.

   1988, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 2

   Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects .

   2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64