Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: sample distribution: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population → 1
Candidate hypernym: anechoic chamber: a chamber having very little reverberation → 0
Candidate hypernym: pasqueflower: any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone → 0
Candidate hypernym: higher education: education provided by a college or university → 0
Candidate hypernym: mandate: a document giving an official instruction or command → 0
Candidate hypernym: quartering: living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) → 0
Candidate hypernym: stonewort: any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits → 0
Candidate hypernym: parliamentarian: an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures → 0
Candidate hypernym: midwife: a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies → 0
Candidate hypernym: aloeaceae: one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted → 0
Candidate hypernym: reading: a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument → 0