misclock

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ clock

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (noun) IPA(key): /ˈmɪsklɒk/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /mɪsˈklɒk/

Noun[edit]

misclock (plural misclocks)

  1. (electronics) An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.
    • 1978, Journal of the Radio Research Laboratories:
      When misclock occurs, it is recorded as an audio datum and an alarm is given.
    • 2002, The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, page 562:
      After each phase crossing there is a chance of a misclock being produced by jitter induced phase reversal at subsequent clocking edges.
    • 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:
      We will present a model to determine this minimum difference frequency given the acceptable risk of a misclock.

Verb[edit]

misclock (third-person singular simple present misclocks, present participle misclocking, simple past and past participle misclocked)

  1. (electronics) To cause or produce a misclock.
    • 1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288:
      This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.
    • 1995, SSME Post Test Diagnostic System: Systems Section, page 57:
      We didn't get past the start. It was misclocked opened and we got too much lox flow in the main chamber early.
    • 2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, page 696:
      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.
  2. To clock incorrectly; to mistime.
    • 1993, Robert Paul Metzger, Transforming Texts: Classical Images in New Contexts, page 46:
      How else could they misclock one of the disappearance intervals by more than a month?