misswitch

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ switch

Verb

misswitch (third-person singular simple present misswitches, present participle misswitching, simple past and past participle misswitched)

1. To switch incorrectly or by mistake.
   • 1907, Union League Club of Chicago, Exercises in Commemoration of the Birthday of Washington, page 46:

     But if I am honest with you, I must say that that happy condition either in some way misswitched or was wrecked on the way up here.

   • 1975, Traffic Quarterly - Volume 29, page 139:

     Thus, to prevent misswitching, the headway between two cars should be about a car length.

   • 2006, Christopher S. Lewis, Steve Pickavance, Selecting MPLS VPN Services, page 71:

     PVC-based networks, such as Frame Relay and ATM, are somewhat less resistant because they generally are controlled by software-based virtual circuit switching and can readily be misswitched or duplicated.

   • 2016, Russell Brown, Kid Fight: Anthology of Sinister Terror, page 255:

     He even invited his own mother into combat, just to kill her for misswitching the babies on purpose in the hospital, as he was taught by Kelcey Kombat.

Noun

misswitch (plural misswitches)

1. An instance of misswitching.
   • 1981, Railroad Classification Yard Technology Manual, page 75:

     The performance of a mini-hump design should be specified in terms of a given humping rate (without misswitches and stalling ) and a range of coupling impact speeds on the classifcation tracks for all cars between design-specified hardest and easiest rolling resistance cars ( specified in pounds / ton or equivalent percent grade ).

   • 1996, Proceedings: ISAP '96: Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, page 380:

     The planning and execution of the sequences mean heavy burden on the operators, because a misswitch can cause heavy damages.

   • 2016, Russell Brown, Kid Fight: Anthology of Sinister Terror, page 255:

     He blames his mother, Margrat Howard, for the misswitch. He even invited his own mother into combat, just to kill her for misswitching the babies on purpose in the hospital, as he was taught by Kelcey Kombat.