acceptance sampling

acceptance 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 …   Financial and business terms

Acceptance 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… …   Investment dictionary

acceptance 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… …   Big dictionary of business and management

acceptance 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… …   Useful english dictionary

acceptance sampling — Ops a quality control decision making technique used in a manufacturing environment, in which acceptance or rejection of a batch of parts is decided by testing a sample of the batch. The sample is checked against established standards and, if it… …   The ultimate business dictionary

acceptance 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 …   Marketing dictionary in english

acceptance 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 …   Dictionary of banking and finance

sampling — 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 …   Financial and business terms

Sampling (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… …   Wikipedia

Acceptance testing — of an aircraft catapult In engineering and its various …   Wikipedia

sampling — 1. Mktg a sales promotion technique in which customers and prospects are offered a free sample of a product 2. Ops the selection of a small proportion of a set of items being studied, from which valid inferences about the whole set or population… …   The ultimate business dictionary