ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Misclose

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈmɪskləʊz/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Misclose is a noun meaning (surveying) To cause or exhibit a misclose.

Meaning

(surveying) To cause or exhibit a misclose.

(more generally) To fail to loop back to the starting point.
To close improperly; to fail to shut properly.
To close (a deal) in error.
(surveying) The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
(civil engineering, by extension) The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.

In some surveys angles of a traverse are known to misclose up to 5° (five degrees) but the traverse is adjusted.

Since the outer loop also contains the blundered angle, it should come as no surprise that it also miscloses by 2 degrees.

The program also calculated the misclose ratio as a check to see if the garden measurement data had been taken accurately and entered correctly.

Having computed three miscloses from three initial guesses, Newtonian iteration is used to improve the guessed values in a semi-automatic manner.

Related dictionary entries include misclosure, mismeasurement, mismeasure, misrepresentation, misdrawing, inaccuracy.

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