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quality factor

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noun

  1. Former name: relative biological effectiveness.  a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One analyst said: “Favor the quality factor and healthcare for more defensive exposure.”

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

Put simply: “Favor the quality factor and healthcare for more defensive exposure,” Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley chief U.S. equity strategist, wrote in a note out Monday.

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

No wonder the much-studied quality factor still sort of works.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

Moreover, in the BIC regime, the quality factor theoretically tends to infinity when one of the system parameters, such as the size of the resonator, is tuned.

From Nature Oct. 22, 2019

The hallmark of a merging BIC is that it increases the quality factor of all waves that have nearly the same wavevector as the resonance, reducing scattering losses from the resonator.

From Nature Oct. 22, 2019

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