quality of life

n : your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the

cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live

(as distinct from material comfort); "the new art museum

is expected to improve the quality of life"

Quality of service

(QoS) The performance properties

of a network service, possibly including {throughput},

{transit delay}, {priority}. Some {protocols} allow {packets}

or {streams} to include QoS requirements.

(1998-07-30)