misalignv.
/ˌmɪsəˈlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˌmɪsəˈlaɪn/ transitive (usually in passive). To align badly or wrongly; to align obliquely. Also (occasionally) intransitive.
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1908 Yachting June 382/3 (advt.) Prism binocular... Mechanically perfect, and impossible to mis-align.
1922 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 30 Apr. 8/5 (advt.) A rear spring..accidentally broken, cannot mis-align the axle and tie you up on the road.
1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxix. 483 In concomitant squint, as opposed to paralytic squint, although the eyes are misaligned, they retain their abnormal relation to each other in all movements.
1976 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 7 446 The two orthologous genes are misaligned such that, after an exchange, one of the reciprocal products contains an internal deficiency of one or more codons.
1988 Nature 15 Sept. 223/1 Second- and third-order discontinuities (OSCs) occur where magmatic pulses misalign.
1993 D. McIntee White Darkness (BNC) 185 The device has been misaligned.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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