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Quality
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- 1 (attributive) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.
"We only sell quality products."
- 1 of high social status wordnet
- 2 of superior grade wordnet
- 1 Level of excellence. uncountable
"This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality."
- 2 an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone wordnet
- 3 Something that differentiates a thing or person. countable
"One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily."
- 4 a degree or grade of excellence or worth wordnet
- 5 Position; status; rank. archaic, countable, uncountable
"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 […]"
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- 6 (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) wordnet
- 7 High social position. (See also the quality.) archaic, countable, uncountable
"A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality."
- 8 a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something wordnet
- 9 The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from faults and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items. uncountable
- 10 high social status wordnet
- 11 In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture. countable, uncountable
- 12 The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. countable
"To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?"."
- 13 A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content. UK, countable
"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'."
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”).
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”).
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