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The spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
Answer for the clue "The spatial property of things that are not properly aligned ", 12 letters:
misalignment
Word definitions for misalignment in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
misalignment \mis`align"ment\ (m[i^]s`[.a]*l[imac]n"ment), n. The act of aligning improperly or state of being improperly aligned.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state, or an instance, of being misaligned
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1891, from mis- (1) + alignment .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
Usage examples of misalignment.
Any misalignment between the two would degrade performance of the impulse engines and could be a potential danger to the ship.
The cause of this error was a misalignment of the ballot cards with the ballot books in the voting booth.
They were all nearly invisible, just tiny misalignments in the texture of her skin.
Maybe the old girl's settling in and the misalignments are cancelling out.
This way, his image appeared real, as did mine to him, and his words were automatically translated from Japanese to Spanish, so that except for some unavoidable misalignments we seemed to be speaking each other's languages.
The petty officer didn't sound angry so much as marvelling at Sun's misalignment.