quality🔊

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.

(occasionally proscribed) Good worth, good make.

(archaic) Position; status; rank.

(archaic) High social position.

(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.

(emergency medicine) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.

(UK, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.