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.
something that is amusing or ridiculous, especially because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce: Their pretense of generosity is a joke. An officer with no ability to command is a joke.