"misorientate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Keith Copeland, Aids for the Severely Handicapped, page 99:",
          "text": "Sometimes I would misorientate slides 90 degrees or 180 degrees.",
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          "text": "You might misorientate the connector, i.e. connect it the wrong way round.",
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          "ref": "2013, R. E. Smallman, Modern Physical Metallurgy, page 253:",
          "text": "Since only one dislocation is required to misorientate one crystallite from another, the structure is a network of the type shown in Figure 5.44a and b",
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        "To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction."
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        "(transitive) To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction."
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          "ref": "1973, Béla Csikós Nagy, Socialist Economic Policy, page 44:",
          "text": "The price system does not signal the changes continually taking place in the value and market relations; it necessarily misorientates in matters of economic decisions.",
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          "ref": "1976, R. G. J. Strens, E. G. Strens, The Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Rocks, page 81:",
          "text": "Thus the sub-grains gradually misorientate until they become recognizable separate entities, i.e. small recrystallized grains.",
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          "ref": "1981, Nick Riddiford, Peter Findley, Seasonal Movements of Summer Migrants, page 82:",
          "text": "Thus records at British observatories as far west as Stokholm, Bardsey and Calf of Man will involve mainly individuals which have misorientated, or undertaken random dispersal prior to migration.",
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          "ref": "1993, Thomas Alerstam, Bird Migration, page 360:",
          "text": "The standard procedure for demonstrating the pigeons' sun-compass consists in 're-setting' their internal clock and finding out whether they then misorientate in the expected direction.",
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        "To become incorrectly positioned, especially to face in the wrong direction."
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        "(intransitive) To become incorrectly positioned, especially to face in the wrong direction."
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          "ref": "2003, C. Krydz Ikwuemesi, The Triumph of a Vision, page 198:",
          "text": "It is poetic justice of sorts that the church whose foreign agents and those indigenous members who chose to misorientate themselves has also given us these […]",
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        "To become confused about one's position relative to one's environment; to become disoriented."
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        "(reflexive) To become confused about one's position relative to one's environment; to become disoriented."
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