misplate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ plate.

Verb

misplate (third-person singular simple present misplates, present participle misplating, simple past and past participle misplated)

1. To plate incorrectly. (any sense)
   • 1961, American Electroplaters' Society, Proceedings of the Annual Convention, page 146:

     Standard commercially offered plating barrels distorted, mangled and misplated these delicate shapes.

   • 1999, United States. National Labor Relations Board ·, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 119:

     On September 25, 1996, pressman John Dixon misplated the yellow and red plates on one paper, adversely affecting an entire run of 200,000 papers.

   • 2008, Illinois. Appellate Court, Illinois Appellate Reports, page 174:

     If the 1997 Jeep had been misplated elsewhere, and presuming the relevant paperwork showed it was misplated, then Biondini acted in culpable ignorance of the truth when he failed to consult the documentation for the vehicle and nevertheless represented the vehicle as a Quadra-Trac.

   • 2021, Subhankar Maity, Sohel Rana, Pintu Pandit, Advanced Knitting Technology, page 338:

     Any defects like yarn missing, lycra cut, holes, colored yarn, misplating, laddering effect, contamination, floats, etc., can be easily identified and immediate corrective action can be made in the next tube formation if required.

Noun

misplate (uncountable)

1. The occurrence of botched plating (sense: thin metal coating).
   • 1949, American Electroplaters' Society, Proceedings of the Annual Convention - Volume 35, page 100:

     In 1937 a program was initiated to inspect the plated parts on automotive products with a two-fold purpose, viz., to scrutinize the resistance to corrosion in various atmospheric zones and to study the effect of plate thickenss. Realizing the existence of inevitable human error in this type of inspection, a form shown in Fig. 18 was devised to minimize it by numerical evaluation of the condition of the plated parts, five points indicating no corrosion and one point designating total failure by blistering, cracking, misplate, peeling, etc.

   • 1990, G. O. Mallory, J. B. Hajdu, Electroless plating: fundamentals and applications, page 382:

     For example, silicon-type mold releases (materials sprayed on the molded surface to help in the removal of the molded part) should not be used, as they are extremely difficult to remove and usually lead to adhesion failures (blisters) or misplate because they hindered the processing solutions from performing their functions properly.

   • 1998, James G. Bralla, Design for Manufacturability Handbook, page 8-30:

     The gas formed during this attack causes lines or misplate on the face of the part if it is permitted to exhaust onto those surfaces.