misclock

misclock

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ clock

Noun

misclock (plural misclocks)

1. (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)

1. (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.

2. 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?