quality control

noun

: an aggregate of activities (such as design analysis and inspection for defects) designed to ensure adequate quality especially in manufactured products

quality controller noun

Examples of quality control in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Booking’s roughly 9,000 engineers are getting about 30% more code into production, counting only merge requests that pass testing and quality control. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Will designers be responsible for quality control measures like scanning every QR code individually to ensure each link and landing page work? — HubSpot, 1 Oct. 2026

After some quality control checks, including researchers who examine mosquito sperm under a microscope to ensure those swimmers are dead in the water, they get packed into containers for release. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026

His job at AllSaints has opened the doors to top-tier suppliers, product-planning, quality control, and hard data on what actually moves on the shop floor — luxuries that would have been unimaginable for a four-year-old London label. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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