Misplacement

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of misplacing, or putting in the wrong place.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Bad placement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. faulty position
  • Word Usage
    "It is a fact known to every observing physician that from fifty to seventy-five percent of all women have some kind of misplacement of the genital organs and that only a comparatively small number of these suffer from local disturbances, indicating that, in most cases, misplacement alone will not create serious trouble."
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