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Quality: 4. degree or standard of excellence, esp. a high standard.

Collins English Dictionary (1986)

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Quality - Essentially, inherent quality is the correctness of facts; pragmatic quality is the correctness of the right facts presented correctly.

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Source: Larry English, "Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality", 1999, p. 15

Quality - Quality is not fitness for purpose.... Quality is fitness for all purposes made of the data, including the likely future uses.

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Source: Larry English, "Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality", 1999, p. 16

Quality - Quality is ... consistently meeting customer's expectations.

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Source: Larry English, "Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality", 1999, p. 16

Quality : Consistently meeting or exceeding customers' expectations. 

Source: Larry English, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 07-Feb-2009 12:39

Quality : the totality of features of a product or service that fulfil stated or implied needs (ISO 8402). The correspondence to specifications, expectations or usage requirements. The absence of errors. 

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Source: Martin Eppler, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 07-Feb-2009 12:39

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Quality - A subjective term for which each person or sector has its own definition. In technical usage, quality can have two meanings: 1. the characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs; 2. a product or service free of deficiencies. According to Joseph Juran, quality means "fitness for use;" according to Philip Crosby, it means conformance to requirements.

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Source: American Society for Quality, 15 October 2010 10:14:55, http://www.asq.org/glossary/

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Global definition of 'Quality' - Quality of any organisation is measured in terms of, " Loss made to the society ". This encompasses the whole gamut of quality metrics that are talked about, like, Re-work, Delay - waste, customer dis-satisfaction, failures both within and outside the organisation, etc.

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Source: iSixSigma, 24 January 2011 08:21:23, https:web.archive.org/web/20111109014246/http:www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_glossary

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Quality - The quality of something can be determined by comparing a set of inherent characteristics with a set of requirements. If those inherent characteristics meet all requirements, high or excellent quality is achieved. If those characteristics do not meet all requirements, a low or poor level of quality is achieved.

Quality is, therefore, a question of degree. As a result, the central quality question is: How well does this set of inherent characteristics comply with this set of requirements? In short, the quality of something depends on a set of inherent characteristics and a set of requirements and how well the former complies with the latter.

According to this definition, quality is a relative concept. By linking quality to requirements, ISO 9000 argues that the quality of something cannot be established in a vacuum. Quality is always relative to a set of requirements.[Quality]

Source: Praxium Research Group Ltd, 12 March 2011 10:29:08, http://www.praxiom.com/iso-definition.htm

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Quality - The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears on its ability to meet the stated or implied needs and expectations of the user.

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Source: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, 25 March 2011 09:42:17, http://www.mass.gov/dep/cleanup/laws/glossa01.htm

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Quality - ISO 8042 defines quality as the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Definitions:

Transcendent: excellence Product: quality of product attributes User-based: fitness for intended use Value-based: quality vs. price Manufacturing: conformance to specs

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Source: The Quality Portal, 19 April 2011 11:10:26, http://thequalityportal.com/glossary/l.htm