misterminate

present singular third person misterminates · participle present misterminating · participle past misterminated · past misterminated

1. To terminate incorrectly.

   The reflections and ringback indicate that a 60Ω resistor misterminates this bus.

   2017, Stephen C. Thierauf, High-Speed Circuit Board Signal Integrity, page 140

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   Sir, in our business, one wire which is misterminated can mean the difference between success and failure .

   1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Work Stoppage at Missile Bases, page 552

   When electrically long lines are misterminated on both ends, the resulting multiple reflections cause severe pulse distortion and significantly lengthen the effective rise and fall times of any pulses carried on the line.

   1970, Donn Baker, Physical Design of Electronic Systems: Design technology, page 371

   They are often surprised to learn that such trivial errors as omitting a punctuation mark, misnaming a parameter, incorrectly setting a condition, or misterminating a loop could escape testing and cause serious problems in actual use.

   1996, Watts S. Humphrey, Introduction to the Personal Software Process