miscertification
English
Noun
miscertification (countable and uncountable, plural miscertifications)
- Invalid certification.
- 1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, DOE's Entitlements Program:
- Miscertification very often involves either violation of rules and regulations or perhaps criminal misbehavior.
- 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Octane Mislabeling, page 109:
- The certification by the refiner and at subsequent points in the distribution system assures that a paper trail exists for any miscertifications, which permits state officials to track down the source of violations.
- 2001, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute for Regulatory Science, Requirements for disposal of remote-handled transuranic wastes at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, page 69:
- Participating sites initially use an 11 % miscertification rate to calculate the number of waste containers that are visually examined until a site-specific miscertification rate has been established.