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A Writer's Dictionary:

Q Definition


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Q1
q
noun
    Qs, Q's, q's
    1. The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet.




Q2
abbreviation
    1. IVR.
      Qatar.
    2. Quality.
    3. Quantity.
    4. printing.
      Quarto.
    5. Quebec.
    6. Queen or Queen's.
    7. Austral state.
      Queensland. Also written Qld.
    8. Question.




Q3
symbol
    1. physics.
      Heat.
    2. cards.chess.
      Queen.




q
q.
abbreviation
    1. Quart.
    2. Quarter.
    3. Query.
    4. Quintal.




quantity
noun quantities
    1. The property that things have that allows them to be measured or counted; size or amount.
    2. A specified amount or number, etc.
      Example: a tiny quantity
      Thesaurus: amount, capacity, measure, portion, sum, total, aggregate, volume, weight.
    3. Largeness of amount; bulk.
      Example: buy in quantity
    4. A large amount.
      Example: quantities of food
      Form: quantities
    5. math.
      A value that may be expressed as a number, or the symbol or figure representing it.
    6. prosody.
      The length or duration of a vowel sound or syllable.
Idiom: an unknown quantity
    Someone or something whose importance or influence cannot be foreseen.
Etymology: 14c: from Latin quantitas, from quantus how much.



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