acceptance sampling
1acceptance sampling — ➔ sampling * * * acceptance sampling UK US noun [U] ► PRODUCTION a way of testing the quality of a group of things by examining a sample (= a small number of them) in order to decide whether to accept the whole group: »Acceptance sampling is used …
2Acceptance Sampling — A statistical measure used in quality control. A company cannot test every one of its products due to either ruining the products, or the volume of products being too large. Acceptance sampling solves this by testing a sample of product for… …
3acceptance sampling — A statistical process control technique that uses inspection of a sample from a batch to decide whether to accept or reject the whole batch. In deciding the level of sampling, a balance has to be struck between achieving the desired quality… …
4acceptance sampling — noun a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected • Hypernyms: ↑quality control, ↑sample… …
5acceptance sampling — /ək septəns ˌsɑ:mplɪŋ/ noun testing a small sample of a batch to see if the whole batch is good enough to be accepted …
6acceptance sampling — /ək septəns ˌsɑ:mplɪŋ/ noun the process of testing a small sample of a batch to see if the whole batch is good enough to be accepted …
7sampling — samp‧ling [ˈsɑːmplɪŋ ǁ ˈsæm ] noun [countable, uncountable] STATISTICS the activity of checking a small number of products from a larger number, asking questions to people from a larger number etc, so as to understand better the group as a whole …
8Sampling (statistics) — Sampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference. Each observation measures… …
9Acceptance testing — of an aircraft catapult In engineering and its various …
10sampling — noun 1. (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study (Freq. 4) • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑choice, ↑selection, ↑option, ↑pick …
