misclock

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ clock.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

misclock (plural misclocks)

(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

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

(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.
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?