malplacementEtymologyFrom mal- + placement.nounAbnormal placement.“A little consideration of the effects of malfiguration of the pivots, malplacement of the axis in the circle, &c., will make it evident that, if these errors follow any distinct and simple law, all their effects must go through their periods while θ is increased by 360°, and that some of them may go through their periods twice or thrice in the same time, but that none of them will go through their”