Q (disambiguation)

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

People

• Q, producer at YG Entertainment
• Q, nickname of American basketball player Quintin Dailey (1961–2010)
• Q, pseudonym of Quentin Elias in his appearances in gay porn site Randy Blue
• q, stage name for Qurram Hussain of JoSH
• Q, nickname of Quincy Jones, American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter
• "Q" or "Q Martel", nicknames of Giffard Le Quesne Martel, a pioneering British military engineer and tank strategist who developed the Martel bridge
• Q, the nickname of Qaushiq Mukherjee, an Indian film director
• Q, a nickname for Joel Quenneville
• Q, pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the Cornish writer
• Maggie Q (born 1979), American actress
• Schoolboy Q, rapper
• Stacey Q, disco singer
• Brian "Q" Quinn, member of the American comedy troupe The Tenderloins

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictitious entities

• Q (James Bond), a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelizations
• Q (Star Trek), a fictional, purportedly omnipotent, character, and the name of the character's species and its members
• Q (Street Fighter), a Street Fighter character
• Q, an amnesiac child from the video-game Zero Time Dilemma
• Quinton 'Q' Brooks, a character from the TV series Moesha, played by Fredro Starr
• Ah Q, the main character in The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun
• The Q, a fictional character from the TV series The Lost Islands

Literature

• 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
• Q source, also known as Q document, a hypothetical early Gospel writing (Bible)

Music

Groups

• Q (1970s band), a US disco group
• Q (band), synth-pop outfit formed in the early 1980s

Albums

• Q (album), by Mr. Children

Songs

• "Q" (AAA song), single by J-Pop band AAA

Other uses in music

• Q, the width of a frequency band affected by Equalization (audio)

Networks, stations, and channels

• Q (TV network), Philippine network previously known as Quality TeleVision (QTV)
• ARY Qtv, a Pakistani television channel
• Q Radio, a UK radio station run by Q magazine
• Q Television Network, an American cable television network
• Q TV, a UK music channel based on Q magazine

Other titled works

• Q (film), a 1982 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen (Also known as Q – The Winged Serpent)
• q (radio show), a CBC Radio One show, formerly called Q
• Q (TV series), Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983

Business and government

• Q (dairy), Norwegian dairy brand
• Motorola Q, smartphone released in 2006
• Pentax Q, mirrorless interchangeable lens camera released in 2011
• Q clearance, United States Department of Energy security clearance
• Q Score, in marketing, way to measure the familiarity of an item
• Q Theatre, a theatre in London, England
• Q-telecom, Greek operator
• Tobin's q, a financial ratio developed by James Tobin

Computing and computer games

• Q (cipher), encryption algorithm
• Q (emulator), open-source x86 emulator for Mac OS X
• Q (equational programming language), functional programming language based on term rewriting
• Q (game engine), 3D middleware from Qube Software
• Q (number format), fixed-point number format built into certain computer processors
• Q (programming language from Kx Systems), array processing language
• Q, a channel service in QuakeNet's IRC services
• Panasonic Q, a hybrid video game console between a GameCube and a DVD player, manufactured by Nintendo and Panasonic
• Q Entertainment, developer of Rez HD and the Lumines and Meteos games
• Q-Games, developer of the Pixel Junk series of PlayStation 3 games

Engineering

• 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
• ΔQ, Heat transfer coefficient - ΔQ = heat input or heat lost, Joules
• Q Factor (bicycles), the width between where the pedals attach to the cranks
• Q factor or Q in resonant systems, a measurement of the effect of resistance to oscillation

Linguistics

• Voiceless uvular stop in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Mathematics

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

Science

Biology and chemistry

• Q, the symbol for discharge (hydrology)
• q, an abbreviation for "every" in medicine
• Q, abbreviation for the amino acid, glutamine
• q, designation for the long arm of a chromosome
• Q, reaction quotient
• Cardiac output (Q), the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute
• Coenzyme Q, a carrier in electron transport * Cardiac output (Q), the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute
• Haplogroup Q (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
• Haplogroup Q-M242 (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
• Q value (nuclear science), the differences of energies of the parent nuclides to the daughter nuclides

Physics and astronomy

• Q, dynamic pressure
  • Max Q
• Q, electric charge
• q, elementary charge
• Q, Fusion energy gain factor
• Q, heat
• q, momentum transfer
• Q, quasar
• Q, Toomre's Stability Criterion
• Q, volumetric flow rate

Sports

• Q (San Jose Earthquakes mascot), furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes
• Qualcomm Stadium, a nickname for stadium in San Diego, California
• Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, often referred to as "The Q"
• Quicken Loans Arena, a nickname for the arena in Cleveland, Ohio
• JQH Arena, a nickname for the arena on the campus of Missouri State University

Transportation

• Q (New York City Subway service)
• Q-ship, converted merchant vessels with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy submarines

Other uses

• Q, a nickname for Chuluaqui-Quodoushka, a series of New Age sexual meditation exercises developed by Harley Reagan
• Q Society of Australia, right-wing, anti-Islamic political society
• Quintals, an archaic method of measuring crop yield, was often abbreviated as q
• Quarter, as in "Q1", "Q2", "Q3" and "Q4", a three-month period in a calendar year

See also

• Cue (disambiguation)
• QQ (disambiguation)
• QQQ (disambiguation)
• QQQQ (disambiguation)
• Queue (disambiguation)
• Suzie Q (disambiguation)