misalignmentnoun

Examples of misalign

misalign
For example, a water pump will vibrate if its motor bearing is defective, if its shaft is misaligned, or if its mounting is somewhat loose.
The interproton vector along motion direction is also misaligned due to nuclear collisions.
Angular dispersion and temporal change of femtosecond pulses from misaligned pulse compressors.
Our finding is that people's representations are frequently wildly misaligned with the survey designers' - and with each other's - without anyone's noticing.
The optical system could thus be moved without becoming misaligned and exact repeatability of measurement position could be achieved.
That seems entirely plausible, but in fact many of them are slightly misaligned.
But they may be misaligned to satisfy higher-ranked constraints.
Investors should be skeptical of companies as well as investment managers where incentives are misaligned with those of shareholders.
Specifically, chartists prefer markets that display price trends but that are not too misaligned.
Congressional seats which had previously been misaligned are sorted into the proper parties through this process of electoral replacement.
This syllable is properly aligned in an anacreontic but misaligned in an ionic dimeter.
In fact, it seems likely that interlocutors quite frequently have situation models that are misaligned in major respects.
Chartists enter those markets that show price trends but that are not too misaligned.
The first term indicates that the vorticity will be altered if the concentration gradient is misaligned with the direction of the slip velocity.
An impulsive drive is provided where the pressure and density gradients are misaligned, whether the shock passes from the light to heavy fluids or vice versa.
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