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misplacement

noun

Etymology

From mis- + placement.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. suffixed as placement — “place + ment”
  8. formed as misplacement — “mis- + placement”

Definitions

  1. Bad placement.

    • His misplacement of his foot sprained his ankle.
    • The misplacement of the supply shed at the far corner of the field resulted in great loss of time.
    • The surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result of a missurvey, or no survey.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at misplacement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at misplacement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at misplacement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA