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To punch the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, keypunch, or similar device.
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Unlike the computer, the researcher may very well tire of running regression coefficients after the first dozen or two, and begin to misread his data or mispunch the buttons on his desk calculator.
IRS operators mispunch computer keys all the time.
There are ample opportunities to omit data or make incorrect entries on the coding sheets or to transpose or mispunch data on the keypunch.
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No, you did not mispunch the calculator. Yes, you really will pay that much for the house!
To punch a hole in the wrong place.
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As will be seen by the accompanying sketch to use this cutter, it is not necessary to punch any holes in sheet before taken to drill press. All that is required is ordinary center punch mark, thereby saving time and labor, also avoiding the liability of workman spoiling the sheet by mispunched hole.
Nevertheless, within 4 weeks of the transfer, a written warning was issued to Linnet, dated Friday, January 5, "1972," (an apparent typographical error), stating that Linnet in the last 3 weeks mispunched an excessive number of holes, requiring welding, grinding, and repunching;
It was not an easy task because input had to be submitted to the computer center punched on five-hole paper tape, and a single mispunched hole could stop the program, yielding only a cryptic error message hours later.
To punch a ball or similar object so that it does not go to the intended destination.
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Four of us stood behind the baseline while two crouched at the net (expecting at any moment to get hit by an errant serve or mispunched volley).
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Another training routine I picked up and adapted was using a punchball to practise timing my clearing punches for crosses which could not be held. I became like a boxer, I had to really, because I wouldn't afford to mispunch in our own goalmouth.
Noun
An act or result of mispunching (any sense).
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What happens when a mispunch is found in an input record?
Therefore, a two-handed punch gives a greater contact area than a one-handed, and reduces the chances of a mispunch ( see illustration 216 ).
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Upon removal of the mispunch and reanalysis, two other points in this data set emerge as possible outliers.
The interior ring on the disk occurs very occasionally on Howland's types 52B, C, and E. (Agora IV, pp. 181–185, 186–188); in this case it may simply be the result of a mispunch of the central filling-hole.
If you have an 'mp', or mispunch, it means you went to a wrong control, or missed one out, and are, unfortunately, disqualified.