misstack

present singular third person misstacks · participle present misstacking · participle past misstacked · past misstacked

1. To stack improperly.

   I misstacked one and it fell to the floor, leaving a mess of broken glass and mayo.

   2010, Bill Clinton, My Life, page 28

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   Because the model assumed in the theory of PSPM has a constant velocity, PSPM causes coherent noise from shallow scatterers to misstack, rather than stack coherently.

   1985, Exploration Geophysics - Volume 16, page 184

   The two far offsets misstack and are visible as a spray of energy prior in time to the stronger near offset stack response.

   1990, Geophysics, the Leading Edge of Exploration, page 34

   The distraction was just enough to cause him to misstack two balls, giving Deirdre a clear run.

   2006, Anthony Young, Mabel Syrup and the Mystery of the Crystal Cavern, page 201

plural misstacks

1. An instance of misstacking.

   Since the CO-DMO sees a larger dip than the dip in the source-receiver direction, it overcorrects and the subsequent NMO correction will still be dip-dependent; a time shift and a misstack will occur.

   1996, Geophysics for Lithology Prediction, page 7