Diameter measurements from a sample of shafts taken from each roughing lathe are displayed in a box and whisker plot. Lathe 1 appears to be making good parts, and is centered in the tolerance. Lathe 2 appears to have excess variation, and is making shafts below the minimum diameter.
The noun PRETENSE has 5 senses: 1. the act of giving a false appearance. 2. pretending with intention to deceive. 3. imaginative intellectual play. 4. a false or unsupportable quality. 5. an artful or simulated semblance. Familiarity information: PRETENSE used as a noun is common.
1. portent-a sign of something about to happen; he looked for an omen before going into battle. omen, prognostic, prognostication, presage, prodigy. augury, foretoken, preindication, sign-an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; he hoped it was an augury; it was a sign from God.