mistrip

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ trip

Verb

mistrip (third-person singular simple present mistrips, present participle mistripping, simple past and past participle mistripped)

1. To trip by mistake.
   • 1994, Requirements for WOCE Hydrographic Programme Data Reporting, page 38:

     For example, individual bottles may leak chronically, may contaminate the samples being taken, e.g. chlorofluorocarbons, or may consistently mistrip or otherwise malfunction.

   • 1998, Proceedings of the American Power Conference, page 114:

     However, relay C mistripped for one backward fault case, and showed unexpected performance for forward faults, as it tripped faster for a fault at 17% along the line than for a close-in fault.

   • 1998, Peter F. Worcester, Report on the Office of Naval Research Long-Range Propagation Workshop, page 3:

     The results were compared with the CTD salinity in order to verify that the rosette bottle did not mistrip or leak.

Noun

mistrip (countable and uncountable, plural mistrips)

1. The act of mistripping or an instance of mistripping.
   • 1980, British Power Farmer and Agricultural Engineer - Volume 59, page 97:

     This system takes out all the guesswork, when for example, a mistrip occurs and the drill has to be tripped in a second time.

   • 1984, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control: A Guidebook, page 350:

     At present, it has a 2/3 logic base, which may be subject to mistrip, as it is switched to the trip mode during test or maintenance.

   • 1994, Requirements for WOCE Hydrographic Programme Data Reporting, page 34:

     In some cases it may be subsequently discovered that failure to trip may be a mistrip with the next bottle closing at the depth of the empty bottle.