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| Examples of characteristics are: <ref name="ref2">Nederpelt, Peter W.M. van (2012). Object-oriented Quality and Risk Management (OQRM). A practical and generic method to manage quality and risk. Releigh, N.C., USA: Lulu Press.</ref>
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| Ability to …| Acceptability | Accessibility | Accountability | Accuracy | Adaptability | Adaptivity| Added value | Adjustability | Affection | Affinity | Affordability | Aimed towards … | Analysability | Anointability | Anticipative capacity | Appealing | Applicability | Approachability | Appropriateness | Attainability | Attractiveness | Authenticity | Authority to … | Autonomy | Availability | Avoidability | Awareness.
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| Beauty
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| Capability | Carefulness | Changeability | Clarity | Clearness | Coherence | Cohesion | Collaboration-oriented | Comfort | Comparability | Compatibility | Competence | Competitiveness | Completeness | Complexity | Compliance with ... | Comprehensibility | Conceivability | Confidentiality | Congruity | Connection with … | Consistency | Containability | Continuity | Contradictability | Controllability | Coping ability | Correctness | Cost-effectiveness | Courage | Coverage | Creativity | Credibility | Creditworthiness | Customer focus | Customer-friendliness.
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| Decisiveness | Dedication | Demonstrability | Dependency | Depth | Desirability | Discretion | Disputability | Diversity | Divisibility | Downgradability | Duality | Dynamic
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| Ease. e.g., of operation | Effectiveness | Efficiency | Employability | Energy | Enthousiasme | Environmental friendliness | Equality | Equivalence | Exchangeability | Exclusivity | Expandability | Explanatory power | Expressiveness
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| Fairness | Faithfulness Falsifiability | Familiarity | Fastidiousness | Faultlessness | Feasibility | Fertility | Findability | Fit in-capacity | Flawlessness | Flexibility | Freshness | Friendliness | Full-fledgedness | Functionality | Future-proofness/
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| Habitability | Hackability | Health | Helpfulness | Heterogeneousness | Homogeneity | Honesty | Human orientation
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| Identifiability | Immunity, e.g., to stress | Impartiality | Importance | Independency | Influentialness | Innovative capacity | Innovativeness | Installability | Integrity | Intensity | Interpretability | Inventiveness | Involvement
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| Lawfulness | Learnability | Learning capacity | Legality | Legitimacy | Level of... | Linkability | Loyalty
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| Maintainability | Manageability | Manoeuvrability | Market orientation | Maturity | Measurability | Mobility | Modifiability | Modificational capacity | Motivational capacity | Multiformity |
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| Naturalness | Neatness | Necessity | Negotiability | Network competence
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| Perceptibility | Performance | Perseverance | Persuasiveness | Pertness | Planability | Plausibility | Policy relevance | Portability | Potential | Power to... | Precision | Predictability | Predictive power | Preparedness to … | Presence |
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| Range | Rareness | Readability | Reasonableness | Recognisability | Redundancy | Relatability | Relevance | Reliability | Reparability | Repeatability | Replaceability | Representativeness | Reproducibility | Resourcefulness | Responsibility | Responsibility sense | Responsiveness | Reusability | Riskiness | Robustness |
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| Tenability | Tenaciousness | Tendency towards … | Testability | Thoroughness | Thoughtfulness | Timeliness | Topicality | Traceability | Transferability | Transitional rate | Transparency
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| ===Qualitative charcateristics=== | | ===Qualitative charcateristics=== |
Revision as of 22:41, 9 December 2022
Definition
A characteristic is a distinguishing feature of an object. [1]
Subordinate concepts
A
Subordinate concepts of the concept characteristics are:
- physical characteristics (e.g. mechanical, electrical, chemical or biological characteristics);
- sensory characteristics (e.g. related to smell, touch, taste, sight, hearing);
- behavioural characteristics (e.g. courtesy, honesty, veracity);
- temporal characteristics (e.g. punctuality, reliability, availability, continuity);
- ergonomic characteristics (e.g. physiological characteristic, or related to human safety);
- functional characteristics (e.g. maximum speed of an car).
B
Subordinate concepts of the concept characteristics are:
- qualitative characteristics (e.g., clarity)
- quantitative characteristics (e.g., length)
C
Subordinate concepts of the concept characteristics are:
- inherent characteristics (e.g., accuracy)
- assigned characteristic (e.g., price)
See also
Property
Notes
A qualitative characteristic if often expressed an independentised adjective. For example the adjective is 'complete' and the characteristic is 'completeness'.
Relations
A characteristic is always associated with an object. A combination of a characteristic and an object is a focus area. For example the accuracy (characteristic) of data (object).
A characteristics can have a value. For example the colour (characteristic) of the car is red (value).
Qualitative charcateristics
Acceleration | Age | Capacity | Colour | Costs | Delivery time | Duration | Frequency | Height | Length | Life span | Periodicity | Price | Quantity | Reaction time | Recovery time | Response time | Size | Speed | Turnover | Volume | Weight | Width |
and all other fysical quantities
References