Q (disambiguation)
Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet. Q may also refer to:
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People
- Q, the pseudonym used by the originator of QAnon, an American far-right movement
- 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
- "Q" or "Q Martel", nicknames of Giffard Le Quesne Martel
- 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
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Q (James Bond), a character in the James Bond novels and films
- Q (Star Trek), a character and the name of the character's species
- Q (Street Fighter), a character in the arcade game Street Fighter
- Q, an amnesiac child from the video-game Zero Time Dilemma
- Quinton 'Q' Brooks, a character from the TV series Moesha
- Ah Q, the main character in the novella The True Story of Ah Q
- The Q, a character from the TV series The Lost Islands
- Q Clearance Patriot, the purported instigator of QAnon
- Kyu, a character in the dating simulation videogame HuniePop
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)
- "Q" Is for Quarry, the seventeenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2002
Music
- Q (1970s band), an American disco group
- SSQ (band), formerly Q, an American synth-pop band
- Q (album), by Mr. Children, 2000
- "Q", a 2006 song by AAA
Networks, stations, and channels
- BeritaSatu (News One), previously known as Q Channel and QTV, an Indonesian talk channel
- 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 (1982 film), horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen (Also known as Q – The Winged Serpent)
- Q (2011 film), French film
- q (radio show), CBC Radio One show, formerly called Q
- Q (TV series), Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
- Q, the production code for the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Space Museum
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 Sharp (Q#), domain-specific programming 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
- Q source
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, abbreviation for quinone
- 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
- q, quark
Sports
- JQH Arena, a nickname for the arena on the campus of Missouri State University
- Q (San Jose Earthquakes mascot), furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes
- Qualcomm Stadium, a nickname for a stadium in San Diego, California
- Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, often referred to as "The Q"
- Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, Ohio; a nickname from the arena's previous name, Quicken Loans Arena
Transportation
- Q (New York City Subway service)
- Q-ship, converted merchant vessels with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy submarines
Other uses
- Q Society of Australia, right-wing, anti-Islamic political society
- Q, a nickname for Chuluaqui-Quodoushka, a series of New Age sexual meditation exercises developed by Harley Reagan
- 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
- Q. texture, a Taiwanese term describing the ideal texture of many foods
- Initiative Q, a new payment network and digital currency devised by Saar Wilf
- Quebec, the military time zone code for UTC−04:00
See also
- Cue (disambiguation)
- QQ (disambiguation)
- QQQ (disambiguation)
- QQQQ (disambiguation)
- Queue (disambiguation)
- Suzie Q (disambiguation)
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