Atmosphere vs Quality - What's the difference?
atmosphere | quality | Synonyms |
The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
The air in a particular place.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
The mood or feeling in a situation.
A unit of measurement for pressure (symbol: atm)
(uncountable) Level of excellence
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(countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
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(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
(emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
* Harriet (a Cambridge University student), quoted in John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education , Routledge (2003), ISBN 978-0-415-25722-0,
* 2004 , Vance M. Thompson, MD, in J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith (editors), LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls , SLACK Incorporated, ISBN 978-1-55642-622-3,
* 2008 , Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4165-5342-7,
Atmosphere is a synonym of quality.
As nouns the difference between atmosphere and quality
is that atmosphere is atmosphere while quality is (uncountable) level of excellence.As an adjective quality is
being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.atmosphere
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (mood) air, ambiance, feeling, moodMeronyms
* See alsoSee also
* ambiance, ambience * moodquality
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Noun
- This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality .
- Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
- One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
- While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
- Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
- A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality .
- Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
- To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (a property that differentiates) quiddityDerived terms
(quality) * human quality * industrial quality * quality time * quality of life * the quality, the Quality * total quality management * qualitativeAdjective
(en adjective)- We only sell quality products.
- That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
- A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
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- I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
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- For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
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- A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.