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I am having troubles finding the right words or labels for a part inspection as my native language is not English and I can't seem to find the right search keywords to look at application descriptions. In the medical sense, a test is positive if the assertion (a condition/sickness) results true, e.g. "yes, I'm sick", the illness tested for is present. But what about "binary binning" of objects/parts?

  • Good/Bad
  • OK/Not OK
  • positive/negative
  • true/false
  • ??/defective
  • ??/error

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  • The word error does not really fit with the rest of these, because error is a noun, whereas the rest of them are adjectives. It's hard to find the "opposite" of a noun. As for defective, you can simply say not defective, or, perhaps more elegantly, free from defects.
    – J.R.
    Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 10:04
  • Of course, that was thoughless of me. Here's a more conclusive listing: thesaurus.com/browse/defective But I'm rather looking for the common technical term that may even be abbreviated, e.g. maybe "NOK"
    – Guest
    Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 10:07
  • My first suggestion would be: Defective/Defect-free. But if you want abbreviations, OK/NOK would work just fine. It wouldn't take a lot of training to explain what those two abbreviations meant.
    – J.R.
    Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 10:12
  • Different fields, and even different standards within a given field, will have different terminology. We tell you that the most common technical term is "pass", you go ahead and use it in a context where the expected term is "no error", and bam you're in trouble. What is your application field? Read your standards, look at what your peers do, ask your supervisors. And if you have none of these things, then you're not after a specific term after all, and whether you use "pass", "adequate", "no error", "working", or "perfect" is completely up to you, so the question has no single answer.
    – RegDwigнt
    Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 10:17
  • While you're absolutely right that it depends on the context, "pass/fail" might be a valuable mention and an element of the solution set. The field is production of parts. I'm trying to improve on what supervisor/peers came up with.. :-) But I'm also happy to hear that OK/NOK seem to be recognized abbreviations / labels, so I might just go with that. Thanks to both of you so far (but I'm still listening).
    – Guest
    Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 10:41

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Pass/fail would be common terms for the result of a binary test to see if something is working correctly.

You might also consider accept/reject for parts that are being tested to see if they comply with a specification.

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