quality – Wiktionary

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From Middle English [Term?], from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitātem, accusative of quālitās, 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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quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)

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• Adjectives often applied to “quality”: high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

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• See also Thesaurus:characteristic

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• (

  a property that differentiates

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  quiddity

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degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws

• Finnish: laatu(fi)laadukkuus(fi)
• Galician: calidade(gl)

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• Latgalian: kaideiba

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  , patycameiba

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• Portuguese: qualidade(pt)

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• Russian: надёжность(ru)

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  nadjóžnostʹ

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• Tagalog: kaurian
• Tamil: தரம்(ta)

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  taram

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• Turkish: kaliteli(tr)
• Ukrainian: наді́йність

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  nadíjnistʹ

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ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture

• Finnish: höyrypitoisuus
• Persian: کسر وزنی بخار در مخلوط بخار-مایع

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• Indonesian: (please verify) kualitas(id)

Adjective

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quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)

1. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.

   We only sell quality products.

   That was a quality game by Jim Smith.

   A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.

   • 1930, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 4:

     A model for discriminating women! A “quality” coat in every sense!

   • a. 2003,, John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, quoting Harriet (a Cambridge University student), Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education‎[2], Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN, page 114:

     2003, John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, quoting Harriet (a Cambridge University student),, Routledge, published 2003,, page 114:

     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 . . .

   • 2004, Vance M. Thompson, MD, J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith, editors, LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls‎[3], SLACK Incorporated, →ISBN, page 187:

     , Vance M. Thompson, MD, J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith, editors,, SLACK Incorporated,, page 187:

     For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.

   • 2008, Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved‎[4], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 144:

     , Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent,, Simon and Schuster,, page 144:

     A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.

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