misinspection

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ inspect +‎ -ion.

Noun

misinspection (countable and uncountable, plural misinspections)

1. An inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.
   • 1985, Madhav N. Sinha, Walter W. O. Willborn, The Management of Quality Assurance, page 263:

     On-line installation of this inspection equipment resulted in a 20 % reduction in misinspection of defects in travelling strip.

   • 1987 September, “Chock Talk”, in TAC Attack, volume 27, number 9, page 14:

     It doesn't do much good for your people to document the work they've done if you don't pay attention to what they've written. Incomplete misinspection — another dropped object.

   • 1988, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 2:

     Quality control, a separate department, spot checks first-line tubes ( those tubes passed by the inspectors ) for defects or other misinspections.

   • 2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64:

     Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects .

Anagrams

• inspectionism