QUALITY CONTROL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quality control mean? 

• QUALITY CONTROL (noun)
  The noun QUALITY CONTROL has 1 sense:

1. maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods

  Familiarity information: QUALITY CONTROL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUALITY CONTROL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("quality control" is a kind of...):

internal control (an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quality control"):

acceptance sampling (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)

 Context examples 

A uniform distribution of a radioisotope in a large container which can be placed in an imaging device for purposes of quality control checking.

(Flood Source, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples include problems within the change control, production, or quality control processes.

(Device Quality System Deficiency Evaluation Conclusion, Food and Drug Administration)

More research is needed to identify and reproduce the properties of clays that are antibacterial, with the goal of synthesizing a consistent compound of the clay minerals under quality control.

(Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds, National Science Foundation)

Cold exposure also interfered with the human stem cell-derived neurons’ ability to dispose of the toxic oxidized proteins via its protein quality control system.

(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of the cell operates a quality control system that identifies misfolded proteins, transports them into the cytoplasm and then targets them for degradation by the proteasome.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Areas of support are, but not limited to: study design, data collection, quality control and analysis, software and measurement error models development, statistical programming, and interpretation and dissemination of results.

(Epidemiology and Cancer Control Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Standard procedures will be used for all steps, including informed consent, clinical data collection, sample collection, pathology review, biomolecule extractions, quality control, laboratory data collection, and biomolecule distribution.

(Biospecimen Core Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Samsung offered replacement units to all of its customers, before reports resurfaced of overheating with the new devices, raising fresh doubts about the firm's quality control abilities

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)

The area of responsibilities of nuclear medicine technologist includes patient care (radiopharmaceuticals preparation and administration, use of radiation detection devices and other laboratory equipment to evaluate the quantity and distribution of radionuclides deposited in the patient or in a patient specimen, in vivo and in vitro diagnostic procedures, use of quality control and safety techniques), technical tasks, and administration.

(Nuclear Medicine Technologist, NCI Thesaurus)

A person with professional knowledge and competence in the field of medical technology that involves performing, advising on, or supervising clinical laboratory testing of human specimens, fluids and tissues, establishing and monitoring quality control systems and measures; developing data which may be used in clinical setting and in support of medical research in such areas as hematology, bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology, immunology, serology, immunohematology, clinical chemistry, endocrinology and toxicology, and urinalysis as they relate to clinical laboratory practice.

(Medical Technologist, NCI Thesaurus)