mispick noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •The accidental substitution of an incorrect item in the fulfilment of an order.Cohune said he estimates that each mispick costs about $80 in lost time and shipping costs — seven times more than filling a customer's order correctly the first time. — 1992 •An incorrectly sampled data point.Since the picking algorithm determines the wave arrival time by measuring the abscissa of an extremum, a genuine mispick can only correspond to a cycle skip. — 1994 •A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.To reduce the likelihood of a mispick the engagement should be delayed as long as possible so that when the loom stops, the reed is as close as possible to the cloth fell. — 1972 verb1 •To pick incorrectly (any sense).Initiation into the psychological concepts and manipulative stratagems of the art course often comes as a shock to those naïve individuals the computer mispicked. — 2009 formsmispicked · mispicking · mispicks
