# mistest
## English

From mis- +‎ test.

### Verb

mistest (third-person singular simple present mistests, present participle mistesting, simple past and past participle mistested)
* (transitive) To incorrectly test.
** 1964, Richard A. O'Connell, “Physical Evaluation of Wool Properties”, in Technical Wool Conference: Held May 13-15, 1964, page 129:This is because they test at a very small, 0 to 1/8 inch, gage length and can mistest a wool with a tender section or break.
** 1975, Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?:'We could have defrauded you,' Rachael said. 'Nothing forced us to admit you mistested me. And the same for the other nine subjects we've selected.'
** 2010, Stephen L. Elkin, Karol Edward Soltan, Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions, page 249:Both the NAEP report and the recent Third International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS) examining mathematics proficiency suggest that Americans are not so much undertested as mistested: vast amounts of breadth, but almost no depth, appears to be the norm.
** 2012, Peter Josyph, Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero, page 50:It was no surprise at all when I heard, much later, that as they were abating their own Downtown building, the EPA mistested the rest of Lower Manhattan and misinformed the citizenry about the danger.
* (transitive, obsolete) To hostilely set challenges for.
** 1893, John Pendleton Kennedy, Horse Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency, page 73:Although it mought be somewhat dangerous, just hereabouts, to confess yourself a sodger of King George—let me tell you, that, being against you, I am not the person to mistest you on that head, by spreading the news abroad, or setting a few dozen of whigs upon your scent, which is a thing easily done.

### Noun

mistest (countable and uncountable, plural mistests)
* (countable) An incorrectly applied test.
** 1925, Association of American Railroads. Communications Section, Proceedings, page 565:With this method of using a key and either using the two cords or one cord, it will prevent a mistest of that kind.
** 1972, R. J. Niccum, Comparison of Polyester, Film-yarn Composite, Balloon Materials Subjected to Shear and Biaxial Loading, page 15:The specimen was then removed from the chamber, inspected to determine the mode of failure and whether the failure was of a general nature, or if there was a mistest.
** 1993, Proceedings: ... International Conference on Multichip Modules, page 157:The number may be expected to increase as the number of chips per MCM increases but for the 9 chip bipolar MCM, human errors and mistests occurred just as they have occurred for the 100 chip TCM.
* (uncountable) The act or process of mistesting.
** 1978, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, page 3096:All of the above systems are subject to a major problem: mistest.
** 1983, IBM Journal of Research and Development - Volume 27, page 8:Here, PQL$_{11}$ is the module-detectable PQL caused by module mistest or tester calibration errors,
** 1992, The International Journal of Microcircuits and Electronic Packaging, page 310:Human error and mistest can always occur whether for a 9-chip MCM or a 100-chip MCM, or whether CMOS or bipolar die.