OC has various meanings in the Science category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of OC in Science.
Quality control is a procedure or set of procedures intended to ensure that a manufactured product or performed service adheres to a defined set of quality criteria or meets the requirements of the client or customer. QC is similar to, but not identical with, quality assurance (QA). QA is defined as a procedure or set of procedures intended to ensure that a product or service under development (before work is complete, as opposed to afterwards) meets specified requirements. QA is sometimes expressed together with QC as a single expression, quality assurance and control (QA/QC). The operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfill requirements of quality.
ScienceA collection of young stars that formed together. They may or may not be still bound by gravity. Some of the youngest open clusters are still embedded in the gas and dust from which they formed.
ScienceThe organ of Corti, found only in mammals, is in the cochlear duct, of the cochlea of the inner ear and is provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells. It evolved from the basilar papilla found in all tetrapods, except for a few derived species that have lost it.
ScienceThe study of the climate of past ages.
ScienceLine, on a meteorological chart, indicating the meeting of cold and warm fronts Also the interposition of the cold front between the surface and the warm air mass under which it has intruded
ScienceLast updated: