Quality
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Concepts
- Quality assurance, methodology of assuring conformance to specifications
- Quality (business), the non-inferiority or superiority of something
- Quality (philosophy), an attribute or a property
- Quality (physics), in response theory
- Quality factor or Q factor characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency.
- Vapor quality (thermodynamics), the ratio of mass of vapor to that of vapor and liquid
- Energy quality, used in various science disciplines
- Logical quality
Music
- Quality, referring primarily to the timbre, but also:
- dynamics (music), every aspect of the execution of a given piece
- musical texture, the way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition
- Quality (album), by rapper Talib Kweli
Businesses
- Quality Comics, an American comic book publisher between 1939 and 1956
- Quality Communications, a comic book publisher started in 1982
- Quality Records, a Canadian entertainment company
Other uses
- Quality, California, community in Kern County
- Quality, Kentucky
- Quality press, a category of newspaper in the UK
- Pirsig's metaphysics of Quality (also known as the Metaphysics of Quality or MOQ), a theory of reality introduced in Robert Pirsig's philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and expanded in his Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
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