Meanings
nounquality control (countable and uncountable, plural quality controls)
plural quality controls
- countableuncountableA control, such as inspection or testing, introduced into an industrial or business process to ensure quality.
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?
1983 November 28, dag%ucbarp...@sri-unix.uucp, “Microsoft Mouse”, in net.micro.pc (Usenet)
Translations
Arabic مُرَاقَبَةُ الْجَوْدَة
- مُرَاقَبَةُ الْجَوْدَة (murāqabatu al-jawda)control by inspection or testing
Chinese Mandarin 質量管理 /质量管理, 質量控制 /质量控制
- 質量管理 /质量管理 (zhìliàng guǎnlǐ)control by inspection or testing
- 質量控制 /质量控制 (zhìliàng kòngzhì)control by inspection or testing
- 質量管控 /质量管控 (zhìliàng guǎnkòng)control by inspection or testing
- 品控 (pǐnkòng)control by inspection or testing
Dutch kwaliteitscontrole
- kwaliteitscontrolecontrol by inspection or testing
Finnish laadunvalvonta
- laadunvalvontacontrol by inspection or testing
French contrôle qualité
- contrôle qualitécontrol by inspection or testing
German Qualitätskontrolle, Qualitätsprüfung
- Qualitätskontrollecontrol by inspection or testing
- Qualitätsprüfungcontrol by inspection or testing
Greek ποιοτικός έλεγχος, έλεγχος ποιότητας
- ποιοτικός έλεγχος (poiotikós élenchos)control by inspection or testing
- έλεγχος ποιότητας (élenchos poiótitas)control by inspection or testing
Hungarian minőség-ellenőrzés
- minőség-ellenőrzéscontrol by inspection or testing
Indonesian kendali mutu, pengendalian mutu
- kendali mutucontrol by inspection or testing
- pengendalian mutucontrol by inspection or testing
- kontrol kualitascontrol by inspection or testing
Japanese 品質管理
- 品質管理 (hinshitsu kanri)control by inspection or testing
Korean 품질관리
- 품질관리 (pumjilgwalli)control by inspection or testing
Persian کنترل کیفیت
- کنترل کیفیت (kontorol-e keyfiyyat)control by inspection or testing
Polish kontrola jakości
- kontrola jakościcontrol by inspection or testing
Russian контро́ль ка́чества
- контро́ль ка́чества (kontrólʹ káčestva)control by inspection or testing
Turkish kalite kontrolü, nitelik denetimi
- kalite kontrolücontrol by inspection or testing
- nitelik denetimicontrol by inspection or testing
Vietnamese kiểm tra chất lượng
- kiểm tra chất lượngcontrol by inspection or testing
Cite this entry
APA
quality control. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quality%20control
MLA
“quality control.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quality%20control. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quality control,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quality%20control.
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