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Definition of Misfitting
1. misfit [v] - See also: misfit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfitting
Literary usage of Misfitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"... especially for dental use and properly manipulated is extremely slight,—so
slight indeed that only in rare cases would it cause a misfitting plate. ..."
2. Economics of Construction in Relation to Framed Structures by Robert Henry Bow (1873)
"If the structure be put together so that, when unloaded, there shall be no initial
stress caused by misfitting of the diagonals, etc., then, on adding equal ..."
3. The School Journal (1895)
"In 100 sample rooms of the Boston public schools I found on'y eighty-two in which
there was not gross misfitting as to the height of desks. ..."
4. Eyesight, Good and Bad: A Treatise on the Exercise and Preservation of Vision by Robert Brudenell Carter (1880)
"A simple illustration of the effect of a misfitting frame may be obtained by
taking a lens, closing one eye, and looking through the lens, held four or five ..."
5. Reveries, Reviews, Recollections by John Hunt (1887)
"This will not follow; but, on the contrary, the misfitting of the twelve volumes
to the times current can hardly fail to become more and more obtrusively ..."
6. American Dental Weekly (1897)
"It seems to be the custom in these days to slip a misfitting gold crown over all
the bicuspids and molare that are at all badly decayed. ..."
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