Quality control: alternatives and connections

An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radic…

One who sustains a great burden.

One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the vari…

Partnership in power; equal share of authority.

A hat or covering for the head.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays o…

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for compari…

Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.

A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming…

any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency

A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stou…

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.

In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…

The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fa…