Qualitative Concept
quality
qual·i·ty [ kwol-i-tee ]
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An assessment of excellence, worth, or fitness for use.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; a degree or grade of excellence or worth.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Quality, In philosophy, a property that applies to things taken singly, in contrast to a relation, which applies to things taken in pairs, triples, etc. The distinction drawn by Galileo and John Locke between primary and secondary qualities is motivated by the fact that modern science seems to...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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