Within the Context of Managing and Controlling Quality, the Term

Multiple Choice

Within the context of managing and controlling quality, the term "tolerance" refers to all of the following except:

A) An approach to defining quality expectations for a process or output.
B) An acceptable range for a given quality characteristic, such as diameter or thickness.
C) An input to defining product specifications (i.e., "product specs") .
D) 1 minus the cost coefficient, k, in the Taguchi Quality Loss Function (QLF) .
E) A term used principally in conjunction with goalpost performance expectations.