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Q0013000 (kwŏl′ĭ-tē)n. pl. qual·i·ties 1. a. An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property: the medicinal qualities of a plant.b. A personal trait, especially a character trait: "The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence" (George S. Patton).2. Essential character; nature: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd" (Shakespeare).3. a. Superiority of kind: an intellect of unquestioned quality.b. Degree or grade of excellence: yard goods of low quality.4. Investments that have a low risk of loss or default: the flight to quality.5. a. High social position: people of quality.b. Those in a high social position: likes to associate with quality.6. Music Timbre, as determined by harmonics: a voice with a distinctive metallic quality.7. Linguistics The character of a vowel sound determined by the size and shape of the oral cavity and the amount of resonance with which the sound is produced.8. Logic The positive or negative character of a proposition.adj. Having a high degree of excellence: the importance of quality health care.

[Middle English qualite, from Old French, from Latin quālitās, quālitāt-, from quālis, of what kind; see k^wo- in Indo-European roots.]Synonyms: quality, attribute, character, property, trait
These nouns signify a feature that distinguishes or identifies someone or something: explained the qualities of noble gases; knew the attributes of a fine wine; liked the rural character of the ranch; tested the resilient property of rubber; had positive traits such as kindness and generosity.

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(ˈkwɒlɪtɪ) n, pl -ties1. a distinguishing characteristic, property, or attribute2. the basic character or nature of something3. a trait or feature of personality4. degree or standard of excellence, esp a high standard5. (formerly) high social status or the distinction associated with it6. (Music, other) musical tone colour; timbre7. (Logic) logic the characteristic of a proposition that is dependent on whether it is affirmative or negative8. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics the distinctive character of a vowel, determined by the configuration of the mouth, tongue, etc, when it is articulated and distinguished from the pitch and stress with which it is uttered9. (modifier) having or showing excellence or superiority: a quality product. [C13: from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās state, nature, from quālis of what sort]

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adj. n. 1. an essential characteristic, property, or attribute: the qualities found in great writing. 2. character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing: the quality of a color. 3. character with respect to grade of excellence or fineness: materials of poor quality. 4. superiority; excellence: a reputation for quality. 5. a personality or character trait: Generosity is one of her many good qualities. 6. an accomplishment or attainment. 7. high social position: a man of quality. 8. timbre (def. 1). 9. the tonal color, or timbre, that characterizes a particular vowel sound. 10. Logic. the character of a proposition as affirmative or negative. 11. social status or position. 12. a person or persons of high social position. adj. 13. of or having superior quality: quality paper. 14. producing or providing products or services of high quality: a quality publisher. [1250–1300; Middle English qualite < Old French < Latin quālitās=quāl(is) of what sort + -itās -ity] syn: quality, attribute, property refer to a distinguishing feature or characteristic of a person, thing, or group. A quality is an innate or acquired characteristic that, in some particular, determines the nature and behavior of a person or thing: the qualities of patience and perseverance. An attribute is a quality that we assign or ascribe to a person or to something personified; it may also mean a fundamental or innate characteristic: an attribute of God; attributes of a logical mind. property is applied only to a thing; it refers to a principal characteristic that is part of the constitution of a thing and serves to define or describe it: the physical properties of limestone.

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people of good social position, 1693; actors as a body, 1603.

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When you are talking about things that have been made or produced, you can use quality to say how good or bad they are.

The quality of the photograph was poor.Over the years they have received many awards for the high quality of their products.

You can say that something is of good quality or of poor quality.

The treatment and care provided were also of poor quality.Television ensures that films of high quality are shown to large audiences.

You can also use expressions such as good quality and high quality in front of nouns.

I've got some good quality paper.Teaching is backed up by the highest quality research.

You can also use quality on its own in front of a noun. When you do this, you are showing that something is of a high standard.

They publish quality fiction.The employers don't want quality work any more.

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The qualities describe behaviors associated with certain zodiac signs. There are three qualities: cardinal, fixed and mutable.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeareattribute - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entityappearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thingattractiveness, attraction - the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"uncloudedness, clarity, clearness - the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes"opaqueness, opacity - the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of lightdivisibility - the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of personsease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity - freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back"difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"burnability, combustibility, combustibleness - the quality of being capable of igniting and burningsuitability, suitableness - the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips"arability - the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivationimpressiveness - the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mindnavigability - the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraftneediness - the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree; "he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it"distressingness, painfulness - the quality of being painful; "she feared the painfulness of childbirth"piquance, piquancy, piquantness - the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally excitingpublicity - the quality of being open to public view; "the publicity of the court room"spinnability - the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers)unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness - the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purposeprotectiveness - the quality of providing protection; "statistical evidence for the protectiveness of vaccination"nature - the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized; "it is the nature of fire to burn"; "the true nature of jealousy"humanness, manhood, humanity - the quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"air, aura, atmosphere - a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance"excellence - the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degreeultimate - the finest or most superior quality of its kind; "the ultimate in luxury"characteristic - a distinguishing qualitysalability, salableness - the quality of being salable or marketablechangeability, changeableness - the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change; "the changeableness of the weather"unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, changelessness - the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchangedsameness - the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together"difference - the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; "there are many differences between jazz and rock"sure thing, certainty, foregone conclusion - something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty"probability - the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost"uncertainness, uncertainty, precariousness - being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income"factuality, factualness - the quality of being actual or based on fact; "the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination"counterfactuality - the quality of being contrary to factcorporality, corporeality, physicalness, materiality - the quality of being physical; consisting of matterincorporeality, immateriality - the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter
	2.	quality - a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"caliber, calibrehigh quality, superiority - the quality of being superiorlow quality, inferiority - an inferior qualitydegree, level, grade - a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
	3.	quality - 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"lineament, characterattribute, dimension, property - a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property"texture - the essential quality of something; "the texture of Neapolitan life"
	4.	quality - (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"timbre, tone, timbersound property - an attribute of soundharmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamentalresonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavitiescoloration, colouration, color, colour - the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonatorsplangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonantstridence, stridency, shrillness - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched soundregister - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instrumentsmusic - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
	5.	quality - high social status; "a man of quality"social rank, social station, social status, rank - position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
Adj.	1.	quality - of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"choice, prize, select, primesuperior - of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"
	2.	quality - of high social status; "people of quality"; "a quality family"upper-class - occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

quality

noun1. standard, standing, class, condition, value, rank, grade, merit, classification, calibre high quality paper and plywood2. excellence, status, merit, position, value, worth, distinction, virtue, superiority, calibre, eminence, pre-eminence a college of quality3. characteristic, feature, attribute, point, side, mark, property, aspect, streak, trait, facet, quirk, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy He wanted to introduce mature people with leadership qualities.4. nature, character, constitution, make, sort, kind, worth, description, essence The pretentious quality of the poetry.

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noun1. A distinctive element:attribute, character, characteristic, feature, mark, peculiarity, property, savor, trait.2. A level of superiority that is usually high:caliber, merit, stature, value, virtue, worth.3. High style in quality, manner, or dress:refinement.Informal: class.4. Degree of excellence:caliber, class, grade.5. People of the highest social level:aristocracy, blue blood, crème de la crème, elite, flower, gentility, gentry, nobility, patriciate, society, upper class, who's who.Informal: upper crust.adjectiveExceptionally good of its kind:ace, banner, blue-ribbon, brag, capital, champion, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, prime, splendid, superb, superior, terrific, tiptop, top.Informal: A-one, bully, dandy, great, swell, topflight, topnotch.Slang: boss.Chiefly British: tophole.

Translations

质量特质

quality

(ˈkwoləti) – plural ˈqualities – noun1. the extent to which something has features which are good or bad etc, especially features which are good. We produce several different qualities of paper; In this firm, we look for quality rather than quantity; (also adjective) quality goods.质量2. some (usually good) feature which makes a person or thing special or noticeable. Kindness is a human quality which everyone admires.特质

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quality

1. Music musical tone colour; timbre 2. Logic the characteristic of a proposition that is dependent on whether it is affirmative or negative

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a philosophical category, expressing an object’s essential determinateness, which is inseparable from its being and thanks to which it is precisely that object and no other.

Quality reflects the stable interrelationship among the constituent elements of an object. This interrelationship specifies the object and makes it possible to distinguish it from all others. It is precisely because of quality that each object exists and can be thought of as something delimited and set apart from other objects. On the other hand, quality also expresses the general factor that characterizes the entire class of objects that are of the same kind. ‘Two different things always have certain qualities … in common” (F. Engels; see K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 20, p. 547). Any object constantly changes; nevertheless, it possesses a certain stability that is also expressed as a qualitative determinateness.

The category of quality was first thoroughly analyzed by Aristotle, who defined it as the “differentia of the essence” (Metaphysics, V 14 1020b35; Russian translation, Moscow, 1975). Aristotle noted the flux of qualities as states of things, their capacity for being transformed into their opposites. Medieval Scholasticism interpreted the so-called “hidden qualities” as eternal and unchanging “forms.” The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, based on a mechanistic world view, took shape in modern philosophy.

Hegel defined quality as a logical category constituting the initial stage in the cognition of things and in the emergence of the world, as well as the immediate character of an object’s being. “Quality is in fact a definiteness that is identical with being and is immediate to it. Something is what it is thanks to its quality, and, losing its quality, it ceases to be what it is” (Soch., vol. 1, Moscow-Leningrad, 1929, p. 157).

Dialectical materialism proceeds, first of all, from the acknowledgment of the objectivity and universality of the qualitative determinateness of things. The quality of an object is revealed in the aggregate of its properties. However, an object does not consist of properties and is not a certain “cluster of properties,” but rather it possesses them: “Qualities do not exist but only things with qualities, and indeed with infinitely many qualities” (F. Engels; see K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 20, p. 547). What is regarded as a property is the mode of manifestation of a given aspect of an object’s quality in relation to other objects with which it enters into interaction. A property of an object thus consists in its producing in another object this or that effect and in manifesting itself in its own unique mode in this action. Depending on the real and cognitive context, an object radiates, so to speak, its various aspects, its qualities. For example, a person exhibits his different qualitative facets to a physician, lawyer, writer, sociologist, anatomist, psychologist, and so forth.

The higher the level of the organization of matter, the greater is the number of qualities that it possesses. Inasmuch as each object is in infinite connections with other things, it therefore possesses an infinite number of properties. Hence all attempts to define quality as the complete aggregate of properties lead to infinity. The category of an object’s quality cannot be reduced to some of its properties either. It expresses the integrated characteristic of the functional unity of an object’s essential properties, of its internal and external determinateness, of its relative stability, and of its difference from other objects or its resemblance to them. Quality not only manifests itself but can change and be formed in these relations. Just as matter cannot be reduced to an aggregate of its properties, so also no object can be dissolved into its own properties: it is their bearer.

The qualitative determinateness of an object depends primarily on its structure, the nature of the relations among the elements of the whole, and on the composition of its elements. A change in quality is caused by a restructuring of the relations among the elements, by an alteration of the elements themselves, or by a transformation of both. The world consists not of finished and unchanging things but represents rather an aggregate of processes within which things are constantly coming into being, developing, and being annihilated, as well as being transformed into other things having other qualities. Inasmuch as an object, thanks to its quality, appears as this very object rather than something else, so a change in quality signifies the transformation of a given object into another one. Furthermore, qualitative changes in a thing occur each time at a different level: they may be connected with a change of that which is specific precisely for a given, unique object or for all objects of a given class. In any qualitative change there is a certain more general and, at the same time, more profound level of the object’s quality that remains essentially the same: it is only a variation of its existence that changes. Thus, a qualitative change may be also connected both with the transformation of a given phenomenon into another one and with a change in the state and form of existence of essentially the same object.

The category of quality expresses a given stage in man’s cognition of objective reality. In the initial stage of cognition an object of study appears before the subject primarily as a particular property or series of properties. In immediate sense perception quality appears as a certain multiplicity of properties. “First of all, impressions flash by, then Something emerges, —afterward the concepts of quality (the determination of the thing or the phenomenon) and quantity are developed.… The very first and most familiar to us is sensation, and in it there is inevitably also quality” (V. I. Lenin, Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 29, p. 301). Cognition proceeds from quality to quantity and thence to their unity—measure. Any object represents a unity of quality and quantity.

REFERENCES

Marx, K. Kapital, vol. 1. In K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 23.
Engels, F. Anti-Dühring. Ibid., vol. 20.
Engels, F. Dialektika prirody. Ibid.
Lenin, V. I. Filosofskie tetradi. Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 29.
Hegel, G. W. F. Sock, vol. 5. Moscow, 1937.
Kedrov, B. M. O kolichestvennykh izmeneniakh v prirode. [Moscow]1946.

A. G. SPIRKIN

quality

The totality of features and characteristics of a product orservice that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or impliedneeds. Not to be mistaken for "degree of excellence" or"fitness for use" which meet only part of the definition.

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The perceived value in something. It implies excellence in a product. The IEEE defines quality as the degree to which something meets the customer's needs or expectations. See QA and software quality assurance.

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noun a distinctive element

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noun a level of superiority that is usually high

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noun high style in quality, manner, or dress

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noun degree of excellence

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noun people of the highest social level

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