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.
A precis is a brief summary of a larger work. The term abstract has the same meaning, but I prefer the term precis because of its relation to the word precise, and because of the way the word is pronounced: pray-see.. A precis is a precise condensation of the basic thesis and major points of a paper; it tells the reader the gist of what has been said.