Q (disambiguation)

Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet. It may also refer to:

Q research software, a software package for the analysis of market research data
Q source, also known as Q document, a hypothetical early Gospel writing (Bible)
Q-ship, a converted merchant vessel with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy submarines
Q (New York City Subway service)
The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
A nickname for Chuluaqui-Quodoushka, a series of New Age sexual meditation exercises developed by Harley Reagan

1 Film, TV, radio and theatre
2 Music
3 Sports
4 Publishing
5 Biology and chemistry
6 Physics and astronomy
7 Mathematics
8 Engineering
9 Computing and computer games
10 Corporate

Film, TV, radio and theatre

Avenue Q, a Broadway production
Q (film), 1982 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen (Also known as Q - The Winged Serpent)
Q (James Bond), a fictional character
Q Radio, a UK radio station run by Q Magazine
Q (radio show), a CBC Radio One show hosted by Jian Ghomeshi
Q Score, measure of familiarity and appeal of characters or shows
Q (Star Trek), a fictional omnipotent character from the Q Continuum
Q (television network), Philippine network previously known as Quality TeleVision (QTV)
Q Television Network, an American cable television network
Q (TV channel), an indie, rock, and alternative based rock-music channel available in the UK
ARY Qtv, a Pakistani television channel
Q (TV series), Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
Q Theatre, a theatre in London, England
Q Theatre Penrith, a theatre in Penrith, New South Wales
Q, pseudonym of Quentin Elias in his appearances in gay porn site Randy Blue
Visitor Q, Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike
The Q , a fictional character from the TV series The Lost Islands
Quinton 'Q' Brooks, A fictional character from the TV series Moesha, played by Fredro Starr
Mr. Q, or Quartermain in the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, played by Sean Connery

Music

Q (AAA song), single by J-Pop band AAA
Q (album), by Mr. Children
Q (1970s band), a US disco group
Q (band), synth-pop outfit formed in the early 1980s
q, stage name for Qurram Hussain of JoSH
Quincy Jones, American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter
Stacey Q, disco singer
Equalization filter, the width of a frequency band affected by equalization

Sports

Q (San Jose Earthquakes mascot), furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is often referred to as "The Q"
A nickname for Quicken Loans Arena, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers
A nickname for Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Chargers

Publishing

Arthur Quiller-Couch, or "Q", the pen-name of the Cornish writer
Q (magazine), British music magazine
- Q Awards, yearly music awards given by Q magazine
Q (novel), historical novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 2000

Biology and chemistry

Q, reaction quotient
Q values, the differences of energies of the parent nuclides to the daughter nuclides
Q, Glutamine
Q, Cardiac Output, the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute. The 'Q' is sometimes written with a dot placed directly above it - a convention which indicates that it is measured per unit time
Haplogroup Q (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
Haplogroup Q (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
q is an abbreviation for "every" in medicine
The codes of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System for veterinary medicinal products start with Q.
Q is the symbol for discharge (hydrology)

Physics and astronomy

Mathematics

$\mathbb{Q}$ or Q, set of all rational numbers
Q, Robinson arithmetic, a finitely axiomatized fragment of Peano Arithmetic
Q, the Quaternion group
Q value in statistics, the minimum false discovery rate at which the test may be called significant

Engineering

Q factor or Q in resonant systems, a measurement of the effect of resistance to oscillation
Q variable (quality factor) which refers to the width of the bell curve.
Q Factor (Bicycles) in bicycles, the width between where the pedals attach to the cranks
Quality factor (video compression) (Xvid_Qf) in video compression, a measure to indiciate the amount of memory/storage used per pixel (and per frame) in a video
Heat transfer coefficient - ΔQ = heat input or heat lost, Joules
Q, the standard abbreviation for an electronic transistor, used e.g. in circuit diagrams
Q the first moment of area, used in calculating shear stress distributions
Q, the reactive power component of apparent power

Computing and computer games

Q (cipher), encryption algorithm
Q (emulator), open-source x86 emulator for Mac OS X
Q (number format), fixed-point number format built into certain computer processors
Q (game engine), 3D middleware from Qube Software
Q (Street Fighter), Street Fighter character
Q-Games, developer of the Pixel Junk series of PlayStation 3 games
Q Entertainment, developer of Rez HD and the Lumines and Meteos games
Q (equational programming language), functional programming language based on term rewriting
Q (programming language from Kx Systems), array processing language

Corporate

Q clearance, United States Department of Energy security clearance
Q (dairy), Norwegian dairy brand
Q-telecom, Greek operator
Motorola Q, smartphone released in 2006
"The Q", Quicken Loans Arena
Q Score, in marketing, way to measure the familiarity of an item
Tobin's q, a financial ratio developed by James Tobin

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