Q (disambiguation)

Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet.

Q may refer to:

Film, TV, radio and theatre

*Avenue Q, a Broadway production
*Q (film), 1982 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen
*Q (James Bond), a fictional character
*Q Radio, a radio station run by Q Magazine
*Q (radio show), a CBC Radio 1 show hosted by Jian Ghomeshi
*Q Score, measure of familiarity and appeal of characters or shows
*Q (Star Trek), a fictional omnipotent character and race
*Q (television network), Philippine network previously known as Quality TeleVision (QTV)
*Q (TV series), BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
*Visitor Q, Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike

Music

*Q (AAA), 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
*Quincy Jones, American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter
*Stacey Q, disco singer

ports

*Q, furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes

Publishing

*Arthur Quiller-Couch, or "Q", the pen-name of the Cornish writer
*Q (magazine), British music 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
*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 medical terminology and health care

Physics and astronomy

*Q, electric charge
*Q, heat
*Q, volumetric flow rate
*Q, dynamic pressure
**Max Q
*Q, Fusion energy gain factor
*Q, quasar

Mathematics

*$mathbb\{Q\}$ or Q, set of all rational numbers
*Q, Robinson 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 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

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 (Street Fighter), Street Fighter character
*Q (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.

Other

*Q document, hypothetical early Gospel writing

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