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Definition: Quality |
QualityAdjective1. Of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches". 2. Of high social status; "people of quality"; "a quality family". Noun1. An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare. 2. A degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber". 3. 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". 4. 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". 5. High social status; "a man of quality". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Quality \Qual"i*ty\, noun; plural Qualities. [French qualit['e], Latin qualitas, from qualis how constituted, as; akin to English which. See Which.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Quality The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Not to be mistaken for "degree of excellence" or "fitness for use" which meet only part of the definition. [ISO8402]. (1995-11-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Industry | A quantitative measure of the rate of take-up(and thus the compactness warp-way)of the machine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | Any of the properties that constitute a concept. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | In a liquid-vapour mixture, the ratio by weight of vapour to liquid plus vapour. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Refers to the nature, and not the amount, of material. In the case of a coal seam, its quality is closely linked with its rank and its chemical composition. In the case of metals, average unit values are determined by systematic sampling and therefore represent a known quantity. See also:ventilation standards b. Native values of a gem irrespective of color and cut c. The ratio by weight of vapor to liquid plus vapor in a mixture, as insteam. (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Something being of good quality. Definition: That something is tried and true, very good and reliable. Context: Used meaningfully to describe anything that is approved of. Social Source: Young Life leaders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term quality refers to how good something or somebody is. In the case of a person this is considered in a particular context, such as worker, student, sportsperson, etc. The term is often used in opposition to quantity. In science, the work of Aristotle focused on measuring quality; whereas, the work of Galileo resulted in a shift towards the study of quantity.
In Manufacturing
In manufacturing, quality is the concept of making products fit for a purpose and with the fewest defects. Many different techniques and concepts have been tried to minimize defects in products, including Zero Defects, Six Sigma, and the House of Quality.
Most of these techniques and concepts are controversial to one degree or another, since there are two opposing schools of thought with regard to quality. One school subcribes to a statistical approach to quality, measuring defects and then taking corrective action. The other school subscribes to a more organic approach, arguing that one should "design in quality" rather than trying to "test in quality".
Historical development of the concept
The meaning for the term quality has developed over time. Three distinctive interpretations:
- "Conforming to specifications" (Phil Crosby in the 1980s). The difficulty with this is that the specifications are not what the customer wants.
- "Fitness for use" (Joseph Juran). Fitness is defined by the customer.
- A two-dimensional model of quality (Noriaki Kano and others). The quality has two dimensions: "must-be quality" and "attractive quality". The former is near to the "fitness for use" and the latter is what the customer would love, but has not yet thought about. Supporters characterise this model more succinctly as: "Products and services that meet or exceed customers' expectations". This is today the most used interpretation for the term quality.
See also:
- ISO 9000
- Quality Management System
- Quality time
- Six Sigma
- Total Quality Management
- Metaphysics of Quality from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
Finding related topics
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- list of information technology management topics
- list of production topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quality."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| QUASAR | English | Quality System Assessment and Registration | Meteorology & Standards, Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: QualitySynonyms: choice (adj), prime(a) (adj), prize (adj), select (adj), caliber (n), calibre (n), character (n), lineament (n), timber (n), timbre (n), tone (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inferiority | Noun: inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth. |
Intrinsicality | Principle, nature,principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis. |
Phrase: " character is higher than intellect "; "come give us a taste of your quality " magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere; " vital spark of heavenly flame ". | |
Nobility | Noun: nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime. |
Power | Capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility. |
Tendency | Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality). |
Value | Noun: {ant. to b} worth, rate, value, intrinsic value, quality; par value. |
Worthlessness | Cheapness, shoddiness; low quality, poor quality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm trying to savor the Capra-esque quality. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) A fine quality in a wife (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) Quality stress dissipation opportunities here (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) See, I have helped you. I improved the quality of your sarcasm (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Clever | Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake. (references; author: unknown) Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality. (references; author: unknown) The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. (references; author: unknown) The memory of bad quality lasts longer than the shock of high prices. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Feel the Width Never Mind the Quality (1968) Quality Street (1937) A Man of Quality (1926) Gentleman of Quality (1919) The Quality of Faith (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Small hands helping do a big job. Taking water samples at a water quality station. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Water quality testing equipment and a "live box" for crabs. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Water quality monitoring. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Glenn Page gives a lesson in water quality monitoring. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Reserve staff member lowers a water sampler into the creek as part of a long- term study to assess water quality in North Inlet and Winyah Bay. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Spotted turtle - Clemmys guttata. According to some accounts this is the smallest of turtles. It is found in brackish and freshwater. It has a low tolerance for pollution and is thus an indicator species of water quality. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Fencing cattle away from a stream is an important measure for water quality that these northeast Iowa farmers are adopting. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Kansas water quality tree planting along a riparian area lost to flooding. Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Elbert Wells, NRCS, Project Leader, Delaware Estuary Program and students from the Hartranft Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania discuss soil quality in a garden the students built themselves. Credit: USDA. |
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| "70s Flashback" by Jennifer W Commentary: "They found some 'wicked cool' 70s stores.... sorry about the quality." | "Rose" by Laszlo Gaal Commentary: "An example of a good macro,some uniform black on the leftt,nice green background on the right and a okay quality picture.This is how they should be all." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Quality will be prized as a precious possession. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. |
James Russell Lowell | Endurance is the crowning quality... |
MoliFre | People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. |
Seneca | It is quality rather than quantity that matters. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Such juridical persons will also have the status of AlsaceLorrainers as shall have been recognised as possessing this quality whether by the French administrative authorities or by a judicial decision. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | You may rely upon the quality. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was (r)not its strangest quality. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | A quality, I might add, that it shares with this soup. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | France is of the same quality of people as Greece and Italy |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | This supreme quality is felt by the artist when the esthetic image is first conceived in his imagination |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A crowd had collected around the woman with the broken hand, and her hysteria increased, a screaming quality came into her laughter |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | One day in much good company I was asked by a person of quality, whether I had seen any of their Struldbrugs, or Immortals |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | I hold ambition of so light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Find out how you can measure quality. (references) | |
Your goal is high quality health benefits. (references) | ||
Improving quality of life for patient and family. (references) | ||
Business | Quality certification is required for many products. (references) | |
Quick service and quality are also important factors. (references) | ||
Significant competitive factors are quality and price. (references) | ||
Children | Hong Kong | Quality medical care is available to all children who are residents and is subsidized heavily. (references) |
Portugal | The directorate also improved the quantity and quality of temporary shelters for children aged 3 months to 3 years. (references) | |
Ukraine | Health care is provided equally to girls and boys, but economic problems worsened the overall quality of the health care system. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Greece | Observers agree that the education provided in these schools is of lower quality than that in other Greek schools. (references) |
Armenia | In Yerevan and major regional media markets, private television stations offer independent news coverage of good technical quality. (references) | |
Nigeria | In 1999 President Obasanjo approved the establishment of four new private universities, but the quality of secondary education remained poor. (references) | |
Economic History | Armenia | Armenian fruits are superior in quality. (references) |
Brazil | Quality control is also an important factor. (references) | |
Zambia | Health facilities are mostly of poor quality. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | Inmates' families often had to supplement the poor quality food. (references) |
Dominica | There continued to be complaints by prisoners about the poor quality of prison food. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | Prison monitoring groups noted that the quality of medical care available to prisoners was poor. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | In 1998 the Government established the Aboriginal Action Plan, a "long-term, broad-based" policy approach to promote the quality of life of aboriginal people and promote self-sufficiency. (references) |
Minorities | Croatia | The OSCE reported concerns regarding the practice of holding separate classes (of allegedly lower quality) for Roma students in northern Croatia. (references) |
Brazil | Afro-Brazilians historically have not been admitted to universities in large numbers due to economic pressures and the low quality of public education. (references) | |
Political Economy | HAITI | Pirated video and audiocassettes are widely available and of poor quality. (references) |
JAMAICA | Items sold in Jamaica must conform to recognized international quality specifications. (references) | |
KUWAIT | To complete clearance, the importer presents its import license and quality test certificate. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Arab Emirates | By tradition rulers and ruling families are presumed to have the right to rule, but their incumbency ultimately depends on the quality of their leadership and their responsiveness to their subjects' needs. (references) |
Armenia | The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) observers voiced most concern over the poor quality of the voter lists, which were often outdated or inaccurate; mistakes in registration and voting by military personnel; problems in the formation of the election commissions and the status of their members; and the presence of unauthorized personnel in precincts during voting and counting procedures. (references) | |
Trade | Korea | Audit quality also is improving. (references) |
Travel | Pakistan | Pakistan's highway system is variable in quality. (references) |
Ecuador | Tourist facilities are adequate but vary in quality. (references) | |
Egypt | However, the amount and quality of furnishings vary greatly. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | Parliament's Joint Committee on Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women is mandated to monitor the effects of government programs and policies on women. (references) |
Oman | The main purpose of the 50 LCDC's located throughout the country is to encourage women to improve the quality of life for their families and to improve their contributions to the community. (references) | |
Morocco | Girls are much less likely to be sent to school than are boys, especially in rural areas, where the quality of schooling is inferior to urban areas and demands on girls' time for household chores often prevent school attendance. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Sri Lanka | While employers in the EPZ's offer generally higher wages and better working conditions than employers elsewhere, workers face other concerns, such as security, expensive but low quality boarding houses, and sexual harassment. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Monopoly, not being subject to competitive pressure, is slow to take advantage of technical advances which would lower prices or improve quality. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Education Equally important to our strength is the quality of our education. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | So let us keep on improving the quality of life and enlarging the meaning of justice for all of our fellow Americans. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Energy is absolutely vital to the defense of our country, to the strength of our economy, and to the quality of our lives. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Drug abuse in many forms will continue to detract, however, from the quality of life of many Americans. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We look forward to the enactment of a responsible Clean Air Act to increase jobs while continuing to improve the quality of our air. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Or we can reform our own private health-care system, which still gives us, for all its flaws, the best quality health care in the world. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Working parents also need quality child care. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Quality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.17% of the time. "Quality" is used about 15,730 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.17% | 15,600 | 599 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.69% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Noun (common) | 0.13% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15,730 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Quality HealthCare Asia Limited | South Korea | Quality & Technology Korea Co., Ltd. |
| Thailand | Quality Houses Public Company Limited | USA | National Quality Care, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Quality, KY |
Expressions using "quality": a wine of quality ♦ a1 quality ♦ acceptable quality level ♦ Air Quality Expert Group ♦ bad quality ♦ Berkeley Quality Software ♦ best quality ♦ broadcast quality video ♦ choice quality ♦ Dairy Products Quality Assurance Board ♦ data signal quality detection ♦ decline in quality ♦ distinctive quality ♦ good quality ♦ high quality ♦ high quality borrower ♦ improve quality ♦ in quality ♦ lasting quality ♦ letter quality ♦ level of quality ♦ lose in quality ♦ low quality ♦ lower quality ♦ Management Quality Circles ♦ maternal quality ♦ merchantable quality ♦ minimum quality surveillance ♦ multivariate quality control ♦ of bad quality ♦ of good quality ♦ of high quality ♦ of poor quality ♦ of prime quality ♦ of the best quality ♦ parental quality ♦ paternal quality ♦ person of quality ♦ picture Quality Scale ♦ poor quality ♦ quality assurance ♦ quality assurance representative ♦ quality binding ♦ quality class ♦ quality clothes ♦ quality control ♦ quality criteria ♦ quality factor ♦ quality goods ♦ quality management ♦ quality manual ♦ quality matters more than quantity ♦ Quality of Health Care ♦ Quality of Life ♦ quality of patience ♦ quality of selflessness ♦ quality of service ♦ quality of the locality ♦ quality papers ♦ quality press ♦ quality product ♦ quality Systems & Software Ltd. ♦ quality test ♦ quality time ♦ rejectable quality level ♦ reliability and quality of European Software ♦ requested quality of service ♦ signal quality detection ♦ software quality assurance ♦ software quality metric ♦ soil quality ♦ standard quality ♦ statistical quality control ♦ statistical quality inspection ♦ superior quality ♦ the people of quality ♦ the quality ♦ tone quality ♦ total quality management ♦ United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ♦ unrivaled for quality ♦ unrivalled for quality ♦ untouched for quality ♦ very best quality ♦ Voice Quality. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "quality": quality-adjusted, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, quality-assurance, quality-assure, quality-built, quality-checked, quality-circle, quality-conscious, quality-control, quality-controlled, quality-costing, quality-driven, quality-enhancing, quality-minded, quality-monitoring, quality-of-life, quality-of-working-life, quality-related, quality-tabloid, quality-wise. | |
Ending with "quality": best-quality, better-quality, cd-quality, good-quality, higher-quality, highest-quality, letter-quality, low-quality, museum-quality, poorer-quality, poor-quality, professional-quality, sound-quality, tone-quality, top-quality, water-quality. | |
Containing "quality": high-quality-low-cost, top-quality product. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
quality inn | 3,407 | quality paperback book club | 191 |
quality | 1,178 | quality management system | 182 |
total quality management | 1,020 | leadership quality | 168 |
power quality | 666 | quality testing weld | 154 |
quality improvement | 604 | high quality | 144 |
quality assurance | 542 | quality of life | 141 |
quality gift | 520 | quality vet | 130 |
quality inn and suite | 471 | software quality assurance | 119 |
quality service | 469 | american society for quality | 117 |
quality suite | 450 | web design quality | 116 |
quality control | 411 | quality system | 105 |
quality manual | 374 | diamond quality | 101 |
quality hotel | 362 | quality of service | 101 |
air quality | 362 | quality web site hosting | 97 |
quality management | 326 | best get oem online possible price print quality | 96 |
indoor air quality | 315 | photo quality printer | 93 |
water quality | 288 | quality management software | 91 |
bead gem quality | 229 | commission environmental quality texas | 83 |
quality inn hotel | 215 | health care quality | 80 |
quality software | 199 | quality vcd | 79 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "quality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vlerë (amount, asset, avail, caliber, calibre, denomination, feck, merit, price, purchase, rate, valor, valour, value, worth), veçanëri (stamp), rang shoqëror, kualitet, e mirë (benefit, blessing, good, right, well), dorë (arm, claw, clutches, fist, flipper, hand, handful, mitt, palm), cilësi (caliber, calibre, capacity, class, degree, fabric, merit, qualification, sort, texture). (various references) | |
Arabic | كيفية (modality), ميزة (advantage, attribute, character, characteristic, excellence, feature, merit, particularity, peculiarity, property, speciality, trait), منزلة رفيعة (stature), نوع (brood, change, class, description, form, gender, genus, grain, kidney, kind, manner, order, ripeness, run, sex, sort, species, stripe, style, type, variegate, variety, vary), طبيعة (complexion, ease, kind, nature), صفة خاصة (feel), خصلة (attribute, curl of hair, peculiarity, property, quiff), خاصية (particularity, speciality), جودة (fineness, goodness), رنة (sounding). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | висшо общество (society), благороден произход, аристокрация (aristocracy, nobility, peerage), за просветена публика, за отбрана публика, отсянка (nuance, shade, tincture, tinge, touch), доброкачественост (goodness), високо положение (altitude, eminence), умение (ability, accomplishment, address, art, artifice, cleverness, facility, faculty, know how, proficiency, savoir faire, science, skill, sleight, workmanship), качествен (accredited, qualitative, vintage), качественост, качество (brand, capacity, class, degree, fabric, grade, kind, merit, point, rate, stamp, tap), тембър (timbre), характерна черта (characteristic, impress, lineament, note, particularity, physiognomy, point, speciality, trait), способност (ability, aptness, bump, capability, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, faculty, fitness, flair, notion, power, sufficiency, turn), висок сан. (various references) | |
Chinese | 質量 , 質 (hostage, nature, substance), 质量 (Qualities), 品質 . (various references) | |
Czech | vlastnost (affection, attribute, feature, make, nature, point, property, side, trait), stav (condition, estate, fettle, frame of mind, order, posture, profession, sort, state, trim), přednost (advantage, asset, merit, precedence, preeminence, preference, priority, reward, virtue), kvalitní (de luxe, top), kvalita (grade, merit), jakostní (first class, first-quality, qualitative), jakost (grade), ctnost (morality, virtue). (various references) | |
Danish | egenskab (property). (various references) | |
Dutch | kwaliteit (property), eigenschap (property). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kvalito (property). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kyn (property, sex, type), eginleiki (feature, property, trait). (various references) | |
Farsi | نهاد (Character, Inclination, Institution), چگونگی (Circumstance, Condition, How, Lie, Manner, Posture, State), چونی (Modal), نوع (Brand, Breed, Class, Gender, Genus, Ilk, Issue, Kidney, Kind, Manner, Nature, Navigate, Order, Persuasion, Sort, Species, Speckle, Stamp, Suit, Type, Variety), کیفیت (How, Kind, State), وجود (Essence, Existence, Person, Personality), تعریف (Compliment, Definition, Description, Explanation, Portrayal, Quantification), طبیعت (Inclination, Nature, Navigate, Temperament), صفت (Adjective, Epithet, Qualification, Schema), خصوصیت (Intimacy), ظرفیت (Capacity, Span, Valence). (various references) | |
Finnish | laatu (brand, kind, property, sort), ominaisuus (property). (various references) | |
French | qualité. (various references) | |
Frisian | slach (blow, property), eigenskip (property), alloai (property). (various references) | |
German | Qualität (class, goodness, grade, niceness, property), Eigenschaft (attribute, capacity, character, characteristic, feature, grace, predicate, property, qualification, qualify, trait), Güte (amicability, benevolence, charity, fineness, gentleness, goodness, kindliness, kindness, property), Beschaffenheit (composition, constitution, habit, nature, property, sourness), Art (behavior, behaviour, breed, category, description, fashion, fits, form, grade, ilk, kind, manner, mode, nature, niceness, order, property, sort, species, strain, style, type, variety, way). (various references) | |
Greek | ποιότητα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | איכות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tulajdonság (attribute, attribution, nature, proper, property, virtue), minőség (baseness, brand, chop, grade, nature, performance, prime, standard). (various references) | |
Icelandic | eiginleiki (property). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mutu (carat), kealaman (character), kadar (alloy, amalgam, character, command, degree, gauge, God's will, level), cap (feature, printed, seal, trademark). (various references) | |
Italian | qualità (asset, attribute, brew, characteristic, grade, habit, point, sort). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 種 (kind, material, pip, seed, tone, variety), 優劣 (relative merits, superiority or inferiority). (various references) | |
