Glossary C
Deutsch: Zertifizierung / Español: Certificación / Português: Certificação / Français: Certification / Italiano: Certificazione /
Certification is the provision by an independent body of written Assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements. It is the formal attestation or confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit.
In the industrial/industry context, CAS stands for Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society that is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the CAS Registry, a database of chemical substances and their properties.
Deutsch: Computerized Numerical Control / Español: Control numêrico / Português: Comando numêrico computadorizado / Français: Machine-outil à commande numêrique / Italiano: Computer numerical control
Numerical control (NC) is the automation of machine tools that are operated by precisely programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to controlled manually via hand wheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone. Most NC today is computer (or computerized) numerical control (CNC), in which computers play an integral part of the control.
In the industrial context, a contractor refers to a person or company that is hired by another company or organization to perform specific services or tasks. Contractors are often used in industries such as construction, manufacturing, and maintenance, where specialized skills or equipment are required.
Deutsch: Klasse / Español: Clase / Português: Classe / Français: Classe / Italiano: Classe /
In the industrial context, 'class' can refer to a classification system that categorizes products or materials based on their properties or characteristics.
Deutsch: Chef / Português: Chief / Français: Chiefs / Italiano: Chief
In an industrial or industry context, "Chief" usually refers to the highest ranking official or executive in a company, organization, or department.
Deutsch: Koralle / Español: Coral / Português: Coral / Français: Corail
A Coral is a marine invertebrate in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.
Deutsch: Konzentration / Español: Concentración / Português: Concentração / Français: Concentrer / Italiano: Concentrazione
In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Several types of mathematical description can be distinguished: mass concentration, molar concentration, number concentration, and volume concentration.