Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quality control

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.93 in modern English

Syllables: qual-i-ty -con-trol
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A control, such as inspection or testing, introduced into an industrial or business process to ensure quality.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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?"

Usage

Inflected Forms

quality controls (plural)

Questions

What does quality control mean?: A control, such as inspection or testing, introduced into an industrial or business process to ensure quality.

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