conformance to specification
His bill requires conformance with local and coastal planning restrictions.
We are concerned about whether the police department's policies, procedures, and practices are in conformance with professional best practice.
We interact regularly with customers and other industry representatives to ensure conformance to customer requirements.
We developed conformance tests for the user-network interface.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Standard and routine
average
average Joe
bog-standard
conformity
conventionalized
given
mainline
orthodox
quotidian
regular
regularity
regularization
regularize
round
routinely
stock
the daily roundidiom
the/your average bearidiom
unextraordinary
unspectacular

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Quality and standard

Examples of conformance

conformance
This study only proves that social variables have an additional effect on conformance to rules.
The criterion that intuitionism applies is the conformance of an action to duty as defined by fundamental and self-evident principles of duty.
Improved tool support for the semantics would be of great value, for meta-typechecking, for conformance testing, and for proofs of soundness.
In our experience, accidental conformance is not a significant source of programming errors.
Named conformance, on the other hand, avoids problems with accidental conformance.
In languages where modeling is established by named conformance only at type definition time, types cannot retroactively model concepts.
Analytic applications of rich ontologies include the checking of the consistency (conformance) of data against the model.
An important problem related to interaction protocols in general is that of conformance checking.
All students are performing in conformance to standardized-test expectations.
With structural conformance, a cowboy could be used where a rectangle is expected, possibly resulting in troublesome runtime errors.
If the changed configuration is not in conformance with the model, the violated constraints are returned.
In particular, type conformance checking is based on its subclass relation, which allows instance variables and parameters of routines to change covariantly.
This facilitates the conformance check of an application to ontology and can be extended to check dependencies among ontologies themselves.
Implementations, or structures, provide the actual code of a program unit, and are checked for conformance with their signatures.
This creates a need to check conformance of the actual behavior to the desired behavior, a need that has several consequences.
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