CONFORMANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conformance mean? 

• CONFORMANCE (noun)
  The noun CONFORMANCE has 1 sense:

1. correspondence in form or appearance

  Familiarity information: CONFORMANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFORMANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Correspondence in form or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

conformance; conformity

Hypernyms ("conformance" is a kind of...):

agreement; correspondence (compatibility of observations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conformance"):

justness; nicety; rightness (conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety)

normality (conformity with the norm)

Derivation:

conform (be similar, be in line with)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the non-conformance to device specifications and minimum packaging requirements as the device may not be operating and functioning as intended.

(Device Packaging Compromised, Food and Drug Administration)

The Clinical Research Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with assistance in identification of prospective patients and determination of patient interest and eligibility to participate in clinical trials, in procurement and maintenance of the informed consent process, coordination of follow-up visits in conformance with protocol, hospital admission and discharge planning, coordination and safe administration of investigational agents, toxicity monitoring and reporting in compliance within Cancer Center and FDA regulations and the guidelines of GCP.

(Clinical Research Support Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)