quality
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒlɪti/
The English word “quality” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- The kind, condition, and/or the set of characteristics of something, as opposed to the quantity of something.
- A single trait.
- Good characteristics in particular; level of excellence; freedom of faults and flaws.
- Good worth, good make.
- Position; status; rank.
- High social position. (See also the quality.)
- In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
- The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
- A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
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”).
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More English words
- qualitativeness
- qualitativist
- qualitied
- qualitiless
- quality assurance
- quality binding
- quality circle
- quality control
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