ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acceptance sampling mean? 

• ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING (noun)
  The noun ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("acceptance sampling" is a kind of...):

quality control (maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods)

sample; sample distribution; sampling (items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population)