{
  "id": "quality.value",
  "term": "quality",
  "sense": "value",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "quality",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinct",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "state.condition",
      "distinct.attribute"
    ],
    "interaction": "the state and the distinct together are a thing more distinct or less distinct",
    "novel_properties": [
      "distinct level",
      "more-or-less distinctness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider maintains proton beam stability within 0.001% tolerance during collisions.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Toyota's factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, sustains defect rates below 10 per million units through real-time sensor feedback.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution remained operative through 234 years, despite shifts in literacy, war, and technology.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "special.quality",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "cheap.economic",
    "non.negation",
    "tough.resilient",
    "value.worth"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "qualities",
    "quality"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quality.value"
}