English edit

Etymology edit

mis- +‎ installation or misinstall +‎ -ation

Noun edit

misinstallation (countable and uncountable, plural misinstallations)

  1. An improper installation or the act of misinstalling.
    • 1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Home Insulation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, page 292:
      If, in fact, misinstallation is the major cause—or a large cause—of fires, should we be encouraging, or even allowing, so much of the do-it-yourself approach in the business?
    • 1996, Cynthia A. Hoover, Marjorie Greene, Construction Quality, Education, and Seismic Safety, page 25:
      Using a videotape of actual installations, and zooming in on various parts of the building, the instructor could ask the inspectors to try to identify as many misinstallations as possible while the video played.
    • 2011, Chris Beckmann, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca, “Some Assembly Required”, in Nigel Davies, Elizabeth Mynatt, Itiro Siio, editors, UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing, page 119:
      For applications to recognize sensor misinstallation, they must take into account the data output produced by different types of misinstallation and potential strategies for recognition.