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.
c.1300, direct one's attention to, from Old French entendre, intendre to direct one's attention (in Modern French principally to hear), from Latin intendere turn one's attention, strain, literally stretch out, extend, from in- toward (see in- (2)) + tendere to stretch (see tenet).