Q (disambiguation)

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

Contents 1 Media 2 Entertainment 3 Fiction 4 Humanities 4.1 Theology 5 Natural Sciences 5.1 Mathematics 5.2 Physics 5.3 Chemistry 5.4 Biology 6 Computing 7 Other 8 See also

[edit] Media

• Q (TV series), a BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
• Q (magazine), a British music magazine
• Q (1982 film), also known as Q - The Winged Serpent
• Q (novel), a historical novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 2000
• Visitor Q, a Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike
• Avenue Q, a Broadway production
• Q (television network), a Philippine television network previously known as Quality TeleVision (QTV)
• Q Score, a measure of familiarity and appeal used in marketing and public relations
• Q, an arts and culture radio show on CBC Radio hosted by Jian Ghomeshi

[edit] Entertainment

• Quincy Jones, nicknamed "Q"
• Q (1970s band), a US disco group
• Arthur Quiller-Couch, or "Q", the pen-name of the Cornish writer
• Stacey Q, disco singer
• Q (band), a synth-pop outfit formed in the early 80's
• Q, furry blue mascot of the currently-defunct Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes

[edit] Fiction

• Q (Star Trek), a fictional character (and race) from the Star Trek franchise
• Q (James Bond), a fictional character from the James Bond novels and films
• Q (Street Fighter), a Street Fighter character

[edit] Humanities

[edit] Theology

• Q document, a hypothetical early Christian writing used in the Two-Source solution to the Synoptic problem. Also called Gospel of Q

[edit] Natural Sciences

[edit] Mathematics

• The set of all rational numbers
• The logical system of Robinson arithmetic, or the set of axioms therein

[edit] Physics

• Symbol for Charge
• Symbol for Heat
• Q factor, the quality factor of a physical system in physics
• In fluid dynamics, the symbol used for dynamic pressure. See also Max Q.

[edit] Chemistry

• Reaction quotient, a value in chemistry often represented by "Q"

[edit] Biology

• Glutamine, the amino acid whose one letter abbreviation is Q
• Haplogroup Q (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
• Haplogroup Q (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup

[edit] Computing

• Q (cipher), an encryption algorithm
• Q (emulator), an open-source x86 emulator for Mac OS X
• Q (number format), a fixed-point number format built into certain computer processors
• Q programming language, a functional programming language based on term rewriting
• q, a quoting operator in the Perl programming language
• Q is the name of an IRC channel management bot on QuakeNet

[edit] Other

• Q (album), an album by Mr. Children
• "Q" (AAA), a single by J-Pop band AAA
• Q (dairy), a Norwegian dairy brand
• Motorola Q, a smartphone released in 2006
• Q clearance, a United States Department of Energy security clearance
• "The Q", the nickname for Quicken Loans Arena
• Q, an abbreviation for question
• Q, the commonly used name for Greek mobile phone operator Q-telecom
• Q, the ticker symbol for Qwest Communications International
• Tobin's Q, an economic metric that compares the value of a company given by financial markets with the value of a company's assets

[edit] See also

• Suzie Q (disambiguation)

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