misstack

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ stack.

Verb

misstack (third-person singular simple present misstacks, present participle misstacking, simple past and past participle misstacked)

  1. To stack improperly.
    • 1985, Exploration Geophysics - Volume 16, page 184:
      Because the model assumed in the theory of PSPM has a constant velocity, PSPM causes coherent noise from shallow scatterers to misstack, rather than stack coherently.
    • 1990, Geophysics, the Leading Edge of Exploration, page 34:
      The two far offsets misstack and are visible as a spray of energy prior in time to the stronger near offset stack response.
    • 2006, Anthony Young, Mabel Syrup and the Mystery of the Crystal Cavern, page 201:
      The distraction was just enough to cause him to misstack two balls, giving Deirdre a clear run.
    • 2010, Bill Clinton, My Life, page 28:
      I misstacked one and it fell to the floor, leaving a mess of broken glass and mayo.

Noun

misstack (plural misstacks)

  1. An instance of misstacking.
    • 1996, Geophysics for Lithology Prediction, page 7:
      Since the CO-DMO sees a larger dip than the dip in the source-receiver direction, it overcorrects and the subsequent NMO correction will still be dip-dependent; a time shift and a misstack will occur.