0 past simple and past participle of misalign
1 to arrange parts of a machine or system so that they do not fit together correctly, with the result that they do not work well together:
For example, a water pump will vibrate if its motor bearing is defective, if its shaft is misaligned, or if its mounting is somewhat loose.
The interproton vector along motion direction is also misaligned due to nuclear collisions.
Angular dispersion and temporal change of femtosecond pulses from misaligned pulse compressors.
Our finding is that people's representations are frequently wildly misaligned with the survey designers' - and with each other's - without anyone's noticing.
The optical system could thus be moved without becoming misaligned and exact repeatability of measurement position could be achieved.
That seems entirely plausible, but in fact many of them are slightly misaligned.
But they may be misaligned to satisfy higher-ranked constraints.
Investors should be skeptical of companies as well as investment managers where incentives are misaligned with those of shareholders.
