Q (disambiguation)

Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet.

Q may refer to:

[edit] 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), Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
• Visitor Q, Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike

[edit] 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

[edit] Sports

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 medical terminology and health care

[edit] Physics and astronomy

• Q, electric charge
• Q, heat
• Q, volumetric flow rate
• Q, dynamic pressure
  • Max Q
• Q, Fusion energy gain factor
• Q, quasar
• q, momentum transfer

[edit] Mathematics

• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Other

• Q document, hypothetical early Gospel writing
• Q-ship, a converted merchant vessel with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy sumarines.

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