misprobe
English
Etymology
mis- + probe
Verb
misprobe (third-person singular simple present misprobes, present participle misprobing, simple past and past participle misprobed)
- To probe incorrectly.
- 1981, Nathaniel H. Rowe, Proceedings of Symposium on Trends in the Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Disease, page 35:
- The pocket pocket was probably misprobed originally, because of the lack of standardization of probing.
- 1992, Management Science - Volume 38, page 1316:
- Once a probe machine goes out-of-control, it will continue to misprobe wafers unless detected and corrected.
- 2010, Jeff Potter, Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, page 167:
- Even if your thermometer is miscalibrated or you misprobe the meat and it's only reached a temperature of 155°F / 68°C, the pasteurization time for chicken at this temperature is less than a minute, which you're likely to exceed.
Noun
misprobe (plural misprobes)
- An instance of misprobing.
- 1987, Allan Robbins, Brian Lundeen, Troubleshooting Microprocessor-based Systems, page 186:
- When collecting signatures for storage, duplicate measurements are flagged to alert to a possible misprobe.
- 2003, Alexander Miczo, Digital Logic Testing and Simulation, page 316:
- This is particularly important when probing with a hand-held probe, on a densely populated board, since such boards are especially susceptible to misprobes.
- 2008, Jon S. Wilson, Stuart Ball, Creed Huddleston, Test and Measurement: Know It All, page 640:
- Software that allows misprobe recovery by starting in the middle of the sequence, as close to the misprobe as possible, reduces diagnostic time considerably.