quality

Non-inferiority or superiority of something; a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute that may be understood differently by different people

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In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality has a pragmatic interpretation as the conformity of something ; it is defined as being suitable for the intended purpose while satisfying customer expectations. Quality may be a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace. Producers might measure the conformance quality, or degree to which the product/service was produced correctly. Support personnel may measure quality in the degree that a product is reliable, maintainable, or sustainable. In such ways, the subjectivity of quality is rendered objective via operational definitions and measured with metrics such as proxy measures.

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Different from: Quality criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items
quality
mass applies to name of object: 质量
Partially coincident with: desirability
value
economic value

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