Might mean (unverified): Failure to align survey measurements accurately.
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noun:  (surveying) The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
noun:  (civil engineering, by extension) The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.
verb:  (surveying) To cause or exhibit a misclose.
verb:  (more generally) To fail to loop back to the starting point.
verb:  To close improperly; to fail to shut properly.
verb:  To close (a deal) in error.

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