Dewey, I like this one. I think the OA definitions are very workable. One of my esteemed colleagues here (Rob, who is a Technet Lurker) suggested Chromatic Aberration, which I will try to use internally just to irritate certain individuals. As to your final suggestion, there are too many things here at Rockwell Collins already covered using that name, the worst being the level of intended violence of an assembled mob bearing tar and chicken feathers. "How ugly is the mob? Has not gotten to Doug level yet..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq1KeyEARBU Doug Pauls From: "Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE)" <[log in to unmask]> To: TechNet E-Mail Forum <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Date: 01/07/2014 08:07 AM Subject: RE: [TN] Help with a Term I's hard to help if I don't know where you want to record it. I full well no all the terms and the intended or un-intended intelligence /expectations attached to them. Here is what I use whether it's just to humor me or feign a continuous process improvement step for AS9100. They on their own do not constitute a reject, non-conformance or process indicator. OA (observable anomaly) with an additional level of granularity: OA-V(visual); OA-M(measurable). Since it depends on what you want to do with them; just call them a Doug. Dewey -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:10 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Help with a Term Good afternoon all, I need help finding an adequate term for something, so I thought I would ask you all. If I am inspecting conformal coating, and I see a visual "item of interest", what term generically do I call the "item of interest"? The item of interest may or may not be a defect but it looks visually different than the coating around it. I have tried Visual Anomaly, or Visual Artifact, but people here don't seem to like any of them? What do y'all think? Doug Pauls ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________