misterminate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ terminate

Verb

misterminate (third-person singular simple present misterminates, present participle misterminating, simple past and past participle misterminated)

1. To terminate incorrectly.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Work Stoppage at Missile Bases, page 552:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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