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defect, subclass

A feature not determined prior to manufacture that is an unintended deviation from a class characteristic, which is present in a particular form in all members of a definable sub-group of items within a class, generally caused by one or more Randomly Acquired Characteristics (RAC) of the tool(s) or equipment producing the items while in the same approximate condition.

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ASB Technical Report 071 Forensic Document Examination: Terms and Definitions. AAFS Academy Standards Board (ASB), 410 North 21st Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 2025. Source link
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