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noun Statistics.

a chart on which observations are plotted as ordinates in the order in which they are obtained and on which control lines are constructed to indicate whether the population from which the observations are being drawn is remaining the same: used especially in industrial quality control.

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Words nearby control chart

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How to use control chart in a sentence

From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
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Spin control began, Florida-style: the opinion only covers some counties, some people, some times.
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He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.
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“The threat streams to U.S. interests and Western interests are off the chart,” he said.
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The police cannot ultimately control public opinion unilaterally.
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Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control.
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In a few minutes, however, he had it again under control, and they soon reached the berg.
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A certain amount of his ill-humour vented, Tressan made an effort to regain his self-control.
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The nativesʼ anxiety to oust the Spaniards was far stronger than their wish to be under American, or indeed any foreign, control.
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The marvelous improvements in mechanism and tone production and control in 1886 to 1913 by Robt.
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British Dictionary definitions for control chart

control chart

noun

statistics a chart on which observed values of a variable are plotted, usually against the expected value of the variable and its allowable deviation, so that excessive variations in the quality, quantity, etc, of the variable can be detected

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