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  2. Nonconformity (quality) - Wikipedia

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    In quality management, a nonconformity (sometimes referred to as a non conformance or nonconformance or defect) is a deviation from a specification, a standard, or an expectation. Nonconformities or nonconformance can be classified in seriousness multiple ways, though a typical classification scheme may have three to four levels, including ...

  3. Nonconformity - Wikipedia

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    Non-conformists of the 1930s, an avantgarde movement during the inter-war period in France Counterculture of the 1960s Civil disobedience , the active, professed refusal of a citizen to comply with certain laws, demands, or commands of a government

  4. Corrective and preventive action - Wikipedia

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    Corrective and preventive action (CAPA or simply corrective action) consists of improvements to an organization's processes taken to eliminate causes of non-conformities or other undesirable situations. It is usually a set of actions, laws or regulations required by an organization to take in manufacturing, documentation, procedures, or systems ...

  5. Gender nonconformity - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of recovery strategies are hiding non-conforming behavior, conforming to gender norms, etc. [59] In Laurie A. Rudman and Kimberly Fairchild (2004) [ 59 ] experiment participants were atypical men and women who were said to have more similarities and knowledge about the opposite atypical sex after taking a survey.

  6. Nonconformist (Protestantism) - Wikipedia

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    Title page of a collection of Farewell Sermons preached by Nonconformist ministers ejected from their parishes in 1662.. Nonconformists were Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established church in England, and in Wales until 1914, the Church of England.

  7. Unconformity - Wikipedia

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    An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous. In general, the older layer was exposed to erosion for an interval of time before deposition of the younger layer, but the term is used to describe any break in the ...

  8. Nonconformity to the world - Wikipedia

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    Nonconformity to the world, also called separation from the world, is a Christian doctrine based on Romans 12:2, [1] [2] 2 Corinthians 6:17 [3] and other verses of the New Testament that became important among different Protestant groups, especially among Wesleyans and Anabaptists.

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...