quality

Meanings

Noun

• Level of excellence.
• A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• High social position. (See also the quality.)
• The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
• 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.

Adjective

• Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• human quality
• industrial quality

Origin

• From Middle English, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitātem, accusative of quālitās, from quālis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- ("who, how"). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης, coined by Plato from ποῖος.