As a fellow Engineer, I would tend to side with Number_Cruncher's perfectly accurate - if somewhat narrow - definition of 'quality'.
In an engineering sense, two products with vastly different specification (and price level) can have a similar level of quality associated with their manufacture.
Of course, the more widespread use of the term 'quality' brings other associations - many of an unquantifiable, personal nature - which makes its definition much more difficult.
N_C - you probably get hot under the collar with popular (mis-)uses of other engineering qualities:
'work' and 'power'
'speed' and 'velocity'
'mass' and 'weight'
etc.
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