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There are over 3000 of them in the world and obviously quality varies greatly.

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Quick take

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of quality gathered in one view.

noun

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

noun

a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"

noun

a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quality.

noun

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

noun

a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"

noun

a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"

noun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

noun

high social status; "a man of quality"

adjective

of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"

adjective

of high social status; "people of quality"; "a quality family"

Example sentences

There are over 3000 of them in the world and obviously quality varies greatly.

Getting a TEDx license is pretty trivial and there is no real oversight on quality.

Am I the only one who hasn't noticed this huge drop in quality that has everyone bitching and moaning lately?

I take great pride in delivering, sometimes with compromised quality, but always on time and budget.

One of the ideas they came up with was to produce a large number of cheap watches, but they couldn't just drop prices, they also had to retool and drop quality, substantially.

None of them wanted to read this pile of crap but again persistence can substitute for quality and he eventually got some nice references and quotes.

This talk barely gets in the ballpark of quality of some of the presentations -- and the real reason to go isn't the presentations, but to meet people who doing great things in software.

However, this system has the potential to silence a lot of high quality comments on any threads that aren't on the front-page for an extended period of time.

But it's a one-way street: we can send the ads team signals or information about spammers or other violations of our quality guidelines, but the ads team doesn't send information over to the quality/webspam team.

Population in the developing world is growing, but metrics for quality of life are improving --- we're eradicating disease, reducing malnutrition, enrolling students, and starting to enable bottom-up markets.