quality
distinguishing feature
retrospective
quality of describing events that already have taken place
ugliness
characteristic of being physically unappealing
frangibility
Material that breaks up into parts instead of deforming as one
hermetic seal
airtight seal
seakeeping
response of a vessel to sea conditions
plurality
candidate or proposition polling more votes than any other, but not necessarily with a majority
soil quality
measure of the condition of soil relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and or to any human need or purpose
bistability
quality of a dynamical system having two stable equilibrium states
texture
video game term
memory safety
state of being protected from memory access bugs
crispiness
gustatory sensation of brittleness in the mouth
minimum metal mine
explosive device designed to avoid detection by conventional mine detection
wildness
quality of being wild or untamed
neutrality
tendency not to side in a conflict
strength
mental or physical quality
mensch
Yiddish word for person of integrity and honor
hack value
in the hacker subculture, a term describing the subjective quality or value of a hack, which is a creative, non-standard technical activity with a goal
utility
state or condition of being useful
utility
state or condition of being useful
topic
topic or area addressed by a work or set of works
tendency
characteristic of an entity that makes a given outcome or event more likely than it would otherwise be
tendency
characteristic of an entity that makes a given outcome or event more likely than it would otherwise be
material property
intrinsic, intensive, quantitative property of a material, which can be measured and compared
isomorphism
lifecycle
color
characteristic of visual perception
electron configuration
mode of arrangement of electrons in different shells of an atom
cleavage
tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes
de jure
Latin expression, roughly meaning 'by law', often opposed to 'de facto', meaning 'in fact' or 'in practice'
autocephaly
Eastern Christian hierarchical practice
packet switching
method for transmitting data over a computer network
toxicity
degree to which a substance or phenomenon can damage an organism
logical contradiction
logical incompatibility between two or more propositions
gamut
color reproduction
robustness
ability of an object, system, or property to tolerate or resist perturbations that might affect its behavior
alternativity
weaker property than associativity
crystal habit
mineralogical term for the visible shape of a mineral
simplicity
zeroness-generality
dirtiness
state when something is not clean; presence of matter that is out of place and foreign so that it impairs the look or feel or usefulness of things
nonsense
quality of communication that lacks any coherent meaning
hydrogen embrittlement
Reduction in ductility of a metal exposed to hydrogen
compliance
ability of a biological organ to distend
world record
quantified value of an event that is more extreme than that of all comparable events worldwide, often in sport
coherence
in linguistics, what makes a text semantically meaningful
out of bounds
concept in many sports related to the edge of the playing area
efficiency
degree to which a process minimizes waste of resources
specular reflection
mirror-like wave reflection
dynamic range
ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume, often used in the context of signals
in absentia
occurrence of proceedings in the absence of a subject person whose presence would normally be expected