quality control

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

quality control (countable and uncountable, plural quality controls)

1. A control, such as inspection or testing, introduced into an industrial or business process to ensure quality.
   • 1983 November 28, dag%ucbarp...@sri-unix.uucp, “Microsoft Mouse”, in net.micro.pc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I would have expected that the folks who wrote the operating system would have been able to make their mouse work with their own device driver facilities, but... And what happened to quality control?

Translations

control by inspection or testing

• Arabic: مُرَاقَبَةُ الْجَوْدَة (murāqabatu l-jawda)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 質量管理 / 质量管理 (zh) (zhìliàng guǎnlǐ), 質量控制 / 质量控制 (zhìliàng kòngzhì), 質量管控 / 质量管控 (zhìliàng guǎnkòng)

• Dutch: kwaliteitscontrole (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: laadunvalvonta (fi)
• French: contrôle qualité (fr) m
• German: Qualitätskontrolle (de) f
• Greek: ποιοτικός έλεγχος m (poiotikós élenchos), έλεγχος ποιότητας m (élenchos poiótitas)
• Hungarian: minőség-ellenőrzés
• Indonesian: kendali mutu (id), pengendalian mutu, kontrol kualitas
• Japanese: 品質管理 (hinshitsu kanri)
• Korean: 품질관리(品質管理) (pumjilgwalli)
• Persian: کنترل کیفیت (fa) (kontorol-e keyfiyyat)
• Polish: kontrola jakości f
• Russian: контро́ль ка́чества m (kontrólʹ káčestva)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kalite kontrolü (tr), nitelik denetimi
• Vietnamese: kiểm tra chất lượng