misregister
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misregister (third-person singular simple present misregisters, present participle misregistering, simple past and past participle misregistered)
- To register incorrectly.
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misregister (uncountable)
- (television) Undesirable displacement of the electron beam from the centre of a phosphor dot.
- 1964, United States. Patent Office, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trademark Cases, page 490:
- There are several kinds of misregister including what appellant characterizes as “mechanical” misregister and “degrouping” misregister […] Both types of tubes exhibited serious misregister problems […]