MEANING
1. An arrangement in which parts do not line up or fit together as required.
2. A mismatch between related aims, incentives, practices, or requirements that prevents them from working well together.
Use it for
describing physical parts that fail to fit; distinguishing positional error from a defective component; clarifying a literal rather than organizational mismatchIdentifies a mismatch between related parts rather than failure of one part in isolation. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- structural misalignment
- misalignment of components
- correct a misalignment
On the page
The inspection identified misalignment of the components rather than damage to the material.
Correcting the misalignment restored the intended fit between the parts.
The report identifies misalignment between the funding formula and the program’s stated goals.
Misalignment between the question and the measure limits the interpretation of the result.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- misalignment
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: misalignment, misalignments. Usually misalignment between + related elements. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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