Q (disambiguation)

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

Film, TV, radio, and theatre

• Q Score, measure of familiarity and appeal of characters or shows
• Q Theatre, a theatre in London, England
• Qaushiq Mukherjee, popularly known as Q, an Indian film director
• Maggie Q (born 1979), American actress
• Brian "Q" Quinn of the Impractical Jokers

Titled works and programs

• Q (1982 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 hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, renamed from Q
• Q (TV series), Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983

Networks, stations, and channels

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

Characters

• Q (Star Trek), a fictional, purportedly omnipotent character and also the name of the character's species and its members.
• Q (James Bond), a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelizations

• Q, pseudonym of Quentin Elias in his appearances in gay porn site Randy Blue
• The Q, a fictional character from the TV series The Lost Islands
• Q (Street Fighter), Street Fighter character
• Quinton 'Q' Brooks, a character from the TV series Moesha, played by Fredro Starr

Music

• "Q" (AAA song), 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
• q, stage name for Qurram Hussain of JoSH
• Quincy Jones, American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter
• Stacey Q, disco singer
• Q, the width of a frequency band affected by Equalization (audio)
• Q, producer at YG Entertainment
• Schoolboy Q, rapper

Sports

• Q (San Jose Earthquakes mascot), furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes
• Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, often referred to as "The Q"
• Quicken Loans Arena, a nickname for the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers
• Qualcomm Stadium, a nickname for the home of the San Diego Chargers
• Nickname of American basketball player Quintin Dailey (1961–2010)

Publishing

• Arthur Quiller-Couch, or "Q", the pen-name of the Cornish writer
• 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
• Ah Q, the main character in The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun

Biology and chemistry

• Q, reaction quotient
• Q value (nuclear science), the differences of energies of the parent nuclides to the daughter nuclides
• Q, abbreviation for the amino acid, glutamine
• Coenzyme Q, a carrier in electron transport chains
• 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, an abbreviation for "every" in medicine
• q, designation for the long arm of a chromosome
• Q is the symbol for discharge (hydrology)

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, Toomre's Stability Criterion
• q, momentum transfer
• q, elementary charge

Mathematics

• $\mathbb{Q}$ or Q, set of all rational numbers
• Q, Robinson arithmetic, a finitely axiomatized fragment of Peano 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), the width between where the pedals attach to the cranks
• Heat transfer coefficient - ΔQ = heat input or heat lost, Joules
• 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
• Giffard Le Quesne Martel, a pioneering British military engineer and tank strategist who developed the Martel bridge

Linguistics

• Voiceless uvular stop in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Computing and computer games

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

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
• Pentax Q, mirrorless interchangeable lens camera released in 2011
• The Q, Quicken Loans Arena, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio
• Q Score, in marketing, way to measure the familiarity of an item
• Tobin's q, a financial ratio developed by James Tobin

Other uses

• Quintals, an archaic method of measuring crop yield, was often abbreviated as q
• Q Society of Australia, right-wing, anti-Islamic political society
• Q source, also known as Q document, a hypothetical early Gospel writing (Bible)
• Q-ship, converted merchant vessels with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy submarines
• Q (New York City Subway service)
• A nickname for Chuluaqui-Quodoushka, a series of New Age sexual meditation exercises developed by Harley Reagan

See also

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