quality

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) Level of excellence.
  2. Noun.  (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
  3. Noun.  (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
  4. Noun.  (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid-vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
  5. Noun.  (archaic) High social position. (See also (term, the quality) .).
  6. Noun.  (uncountable) 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.
  7. Adjective.  Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

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