quality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: emergency-medicine
journalism
media
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
thermodynamics
Etymology: From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
Inflected forms:
form: qualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The kind, condition, and/or the set of characteristics of something, as opposed to the quantity of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The lattice structure of a steel profoundly changes its qualities.
Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
“That's life,” she said, and buzzed off to keep her vigil, leaving me kicking myself because I'd forgotten to say anything about the quality of mercy not being strained. It isn't, as I dare say you know, and a mention of this might just have done the trick.
Something about his bearing was uncommitted, as though he were checking not for some bad quality he knew Feldman had, but for some good quality he was afraid he might have.
gloss: A single trait.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
gloss: Good characteristics in particular; level of excellence; freedom of faults and flaws.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
“I'll tell you what you're going to do. Have you a clean shirt?” “Several.” “And a toothbrush?” “Two, both of the finest quality.” “Then pack them. You're coming to Brinkley tomorrow.”
He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
gloss: Good worth, good make.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: For this building project we need to use quality materials that will last for many decades.
That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
We had some quality time yesterday!
A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
A model for discriminating women! A "quality" coat in every sense!
I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.
gloss: Position; status; rank.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The firſt Solemn Embaſſy that the French King ſent to the late King of SIAM, was in the Year 1685, by Monſieur de Chaumont, who went in Quality of Ambaſſador Extraordinary […]
gloss: High social position. (See also the quality.)
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.
Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
gloss: In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".
gloss: A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
examples: It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.
Related words: qualia
qualitative
Derived words: data quality
draft-quality
high-quality
high quality rip
letter-quality
letter-quality printing
low-quality
medium-quality
near letter-quality
nonquality
poor-quality
potato-quality
preview-quality
qualify
qualitative
qualitied
qualitiness
quality-adjusted
quality-adjusted life year
quality assurance
quality binding
quality circle
quality control
quality fade
qualityless
quality magazine
qualityness
quality newspaper
quality of life
quality of service
quality over quantity
quality requirement
quality start
quality time
qualitywise
redeeming quality
star quality
subquality
superquality
surface quality
the Quality
the quality
top-quality
total quality management
unqualitied
unquality
voice quality
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