misplot

To incorrectly mark the position of.

I believe that M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, for example, all miss or misplot Wordsworth's position on the crucial intellectual axes represented by Burke and Rousseau.

If the doctor is not familiar with the dermatome patterns, he may misplot the dermatome areas, and the test may be either a false positive or a false negative.

To make an error in planning a trajectory or route.

Mr. O'Hara, athlete that he was, misplotted his course and plunged into the well.

It is amazing how easy it is, in the distracting environment of a boat under way, to misplot a bearing by 10°; to write down the wrong time for something; to misidentify charted features used for range; to copy the wrong number out of a table.

To make a mistake in forming a course of action or storyline.

And now and then we find a great idea, misplotted and half told.

By contrast Levin's sequel, Rosemary's Son (1997), is an ill-conceived and misplotted attempt to imagine the future that awaits Rosemary's baby at the dawn of the millennium.

An instance of misplotting.

A misplot of ship position is the most frequently made plotting error .

A printout of individuals too far from block's center enabled me to eliminate obvious misplots.

A plot error; an inconsistency or mistake in creating a storyline.

Some, who read this, may not know what the crowning misplot was, and it will bear mentioning.