Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Efficiency
Measure of planned performance to actual output. Used for labor, line, materials, time, etc. The proportion of total costs that can be related to benefits achieved in practice. The relationship between the quantity of input or resources used in the production of medical services and the quantity of output produced. The relationship between the quantity…
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Economic order of quality (EOQ)
A simplified model of inventory system and at a reduced total cost of maintenance of inventory.
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Eclair
A small pastry filled with cream flavored with vanilla, coffee, or chocolate or iced with fondant icing. The frosted, cream-filled buns known as eclairs acquired their name, French for lightning bolt, not from their shape but from the speed with which they vanish from a plate: like lightning, they are gone in a flash. The…
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Dust
To sprinkle or coat food lightly with flour or sugar. Minute, fine particles of earth; any powder, especially something that has settled from the air. Finely fragmented substances (such as those used for safeguarding plants) that may or may not be combined with a solvent, intended for use when dry. The term being described here…
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Duplicates
Results from units of experiments made under the same conditions.
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Duo-trio
A method of difference testing, that is, one of a pair of samples is identified and presented first. Then the observer receives two more samples as unknowns in random order. The observers task is to pick the different sample.
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Du jour
Literally means “of the day” and generally refers to a given menu item of the day.
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Dud detector
A mechanism designed to identify low vacuum containers and reject them.
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Dud
A container with no vacuum.
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Dryness
Little or no sugar, opposite of sweetness. The state of being dry.
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