| quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
| quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone, the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare |
quality caliber
calibre | a degree or grade of excellence or worth, the quality of students has risen, an executive of low caliber |
superiority
high quality | the quality of being superior |
inferiority
low quality | an inferior quality |
| parental quality | a quality appropriate to a parent |
motherliness
maternalism
maternal quality
maternity | the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother, the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children |
fatherliness
paternal quality | the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father, the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears |
timbre
timber
quality tone | (music) 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 |
| average cost | total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units |
quality
character
lineament | 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 |
| average | an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual, he is about average in height, the snowfall this month is below average |
average
norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution, it set the norm for American homes |
Dow Jones
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | an indicator of stock market prices, based on the share values ofbluehip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing |
earned run average
ERA | (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness, calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched |
grade point average
GPA | a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university, calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted |
deterioration
decline in quality
declension
worsening | process of changing to an inferior state |
batting average
hitting average | (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance, the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat, Ted Williams once had a batting average above . |
| batting average | (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds, the salesman's batting average was out of |
| fielding average | (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance, the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances |
| average | (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities |
| quality | high social status, a man of quality |
| quality of life | your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort), the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life |
average
average out | compute the average of |
| average | achieve or reach on average, He averaged a C |
average
average out | amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain, The number of hours I work per work averages out to |
high-grade
top-quality
top-grade | surpassing in quality, top-grade ore |
| quality | of high social status, people of quality, a quality family |
average
ordinary | lacking special distinction, rank, or status, commonly encountered, average people, the ordinary (or common) man in the street |
average
intermediate
medium | around the middle of a scale of evaluation, an orange of average size, intermediate capacity, medium bombers |
| average mean(a) | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value, the average income in New England is below that of the nation, of average height for his age, the mean annual rainfall |
median(a)
average | relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values), the median value of , , and i, the median income for the year was $, |
modal(a)
average | relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution, the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak i |
average
fair
mediocre
middling | lacking exceptional quality or ability, a novel of average merit, only a fair performance of the sonata, in fair health, the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average, the performance was middling at best |
choice
prime(a)
prize
quality
select | of superior grade, choice wines, prime beef, prize carnations, quality paper, select peaches |
on the average
on average | typically, on average he watches three movies a week |