{
  "id": "performance.quality",
  "term": "performance",
  "sense": "quality",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the way an action is done that makes a result",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "action.deed",
      "outcome.result",
      "make.verb",
      "results.outcome",
      "way.method"
    ],
    "interaction": "the action is performed through a method, and the resulting outcome reveals how the making unfolded",
    "novel_properties": [
      "quality of execution",
      "discernible standard in performance",
      "evident effectiveness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope corrected its blurry vision in 1993 when astronauts installed COSTAR, a device that compensated for the mirror's flaw.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apache HTTP Server handled 30,000 requests per second on a single machine during a 2022 benchmark test in Frankfurt.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Usain Bolt ran the 100 meters in 9.58 seconds at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, setting a world record.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quality.value",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "performance is a kind of quality"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "buffer.region",
    "comfort-zone.named",
    "delicate.window",
    "exhaustion.capacity",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "repair.restore",
    "stress.condition",
    "tough.resilient"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "performance",
    "performances"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Factual error in initial record: definition relied on 'make.verb' and 'way.method' which were not included. Added missing components that are constitutive; verified all components are real and acyclic"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-performance.quality"
}