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misassembly en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + assembly.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Wrong or defective assembly.
   • Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects. 2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64:
   • After computer assembly, a finishing phase ensues, wherein the gaps between assembled contigs are closed experimentally, and any misassembly is resolved. 2000 March 24, Eugene W. Myers et al., “A Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila”, in Science, volume 287, number 5461, →DOI, pages 2196–2204:
   • We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.] 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:

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