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71Quality start — In baseball, a quality start is a statistic for a starting pitcher defined as a game in which the pitcher completes at least six innings and permits no more than three earned runs. The quality start was developed by sportswriter John Lowe in 1985 …
72Total war — For other uses, see Total war (disambiguation). Warfare Military history Eras Prehistoric Ancient …
73Total station — A total station is an optical instrument used in modern surveying and archaeology as well as by police, crime scene investigators, private accident reconstructionists and insurance companies to take measurements of scenes. It is a combination of… …
74Total market coverage — A total market coverage, or TMC, product is a supplement to a newspaper that is delivered free of charge to all households in a newspaper s market or a specific portion or portions of the market. Total Market Coverage products are meant to… …
75Quality and Outcomes Framework — The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system for payment of GPs in the UK National Health Service. It was introduced as part of the new General medical services (GMS) NHS contract in April 2004. It is supported by an IT system called QMAS …
76Total Productive Maintenance — TPM steht im Original für Total Productive Maintenance. Heute wird TPM auch als Total Productive Manufacturing oder Total Productive Management im Sinne eines umfassenden Produktionssystems interpretiert. Hier können Parallelen zu Kaizen oder… …
77total return swaps — A type of credit derivative instrument. Swap contracts in which the protection buyer sells the total return from a particular reference asset such as a corporate loan or bond. In exchange, the protection buyer receives a rate of interest such as… …
78quality — [1] Conformance to requirements in relation to a degree of excellence. [2] In sound reproduction, the degree to which a sample of reproduced sound resembles a sample of the original sound. The general description of freedom from various types of… …
79Total Acid Number — The Total Acid Number is the amount of potassium hydroxide in milligrams that is needed to neutralize the acids in one gram of oil. It is an important quality measurement of crude oil. The TAN value indicates to the crude oil refinery the… …
80total dissolved solids — a measure of water quality, the total residue remaining after evaporation of a water sample filtered to remove suspended matter larger than 1.0 mm; inorganic salts (principally calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, bicarbonates, chlorides and… …
