Equity vs Quality - What's the difference?
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value of some business.
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, title= (legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
* Macaulay
(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
* Kent
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
Justice, impartiality or fairness.
* Tillotson
(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.
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As nouns the difference between equity and quality
is that equity is ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business while quality is level of excellence.As an adjective quality is
being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.equity
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(wikipedia equity)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
- an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
- I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
- Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .
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*quality
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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.
