mispattern

present singular third person mispatterns · participle present mispatterning · participle past mispatterned · past mispatterned

1. To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.

   The micropyle is normally a derivative of animal pole follicle cells. It has been shown that loss of Buc from the oocyte is sufficient to mispattern the follicle cells, suggesting oocyte-derived signals are involved.

   2017, Douglas W Houston, Cell Polarity in Development and Disease, page 11

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   The grievant testified that the decision whether or not to replace a screen was a matter of judgment and that the screens were replaced by him May 12 but that he did mispattern and misalign them so that they were again changed by him May 13.

   1982, Labor Arbitration Reports - Volume 78, page 228

   We also introduced and ectopically expressed the E177A and EH mutant Shh constructs into Drosophila and compared their ability to mispattern the embryonic cuticle with that of wild-type Shh (30) and could detect no significant difference between them (H.E.F. Takahashi and P.A.B., unpublished data) further substantiating dispensability of catalytic activity for Shh-N signalling function in the context of developing Drosophila embryos.

   1999, Hans Neurath, Colloquium on Proteolytic Processing and Physiological Regulation

plural mispatterns

1. A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.

   Observation was taken several times for all the 256 patterns, but no mispattern was found.

   1960, Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo, Review - Volumes 8-9, page 246

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   So I think if you did get too much water floating around like that because of the fine spray it did create kind of a mispattern in the volume of the shower and it was objectionable to inhale it.

   2001, Design Concepts for Zero-G Whole Body Cleansing on ISS Alpha, page 35

   May those of an ancient way of the Cambodian see in their Asiatic wisdom's wind of change that the Kampuchean soul of their inner being will give heed through prayer, and sincere thoughts most importantly will heal those who had witnessed the skulled and skeletoned puddle filths of those zone sectors of the wrong which stemmed from other types of mis-patterns of political history and not that of the communist way which the common American has become far to paranoid and steriotypical of.

   2014, Ted Hodge, Massachusetts Project Word Problems