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Équateur
Province de l'Équateur (Provincial flag) (Provincial Seal) Democratic Republic of the Congo Capital Mbandaka Largest city Mbandaka National language Lingala Land area¹ 403,292 km² Governor Yves Mobando Yogo PopulationDensity 4,820,000(est. 1998)11.92/km² ..
Équateur Province
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Qu'aiti
Qu'aiti (Arabic: ‎ [al-Quʿayṭī]), officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut (Arabic: السلطنة القعيطية في حضرموت) or the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla (Arabic: السلطنة القعيطية في الشحر و المكلا [al-Salṭanah al-Qu�..
Qu'Appelle
Qu'Appelle may refer to: Qu'Appelle, SaskatchewanFort Qu'Appelle, SaskatchewanQu'Appelle (electoral district)The Qu'Appelle Valley and Qu'Appelle RiverDiocese of Qu'Appelle (diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada)This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associate..
Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, is a small locality located on Trans-Canada Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline, some thirty miles east of Regina, Saskatchewan. Qu'Appelle has a somewhat unfortunate history. It was at one stage been designated as a major metropole by both the federa..
Qu'Appelle River
The Qu'Appelle River is a river that flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the Assiniboine River in Manitoba. It flows into several lakes of considerable significance in southeast Saskatchewan, including Buffalo Pound Lake to the northwest of Regina, created ..
Qu'Appelle River Dam
The Qu'appelle River Dam is the smaller of two dams which created Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, Canada. The dam was built in the 1960's and regulates the flow of the Qu'Appelle River into Buffalo Pound Lake, which supplies water to Regina, Moose Jaw and the Kalium Chemicals Potash Mine at Belle..
Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain
Qu'Apelle—Moose Mountain was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1988. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Moose Mountain and Qu'Appelle ridings It consisted of a part of Saskatchewan lying south of ..
Qua
Chinese The term 'qua' is a suffix used in China around the 17th and 18th century on names of Chinese "hong" merchants, e.g. Powqua, Chinqua, etc. It is believed to be a corruption of the word "kuan" - meaning official in Chinese. Since "hong" merchants were technically Mandarins of the lowest (..
Quaartz
Quaartz was a Silicon Valley based internet calendaring service, founded by a former BEA executive, Tom Ku, with other executives from Sun, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Disney division Go Networks. ..
Quabbin Reservoir
The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Built between 1930 and 1940, it is the primary water supply for Boston. It has an aggregate capacity of 412 billion U.S. gallons (1.56 km³) and an area of 37 square miles (96 km²). Water from the Quabb..
Quabbin Valley
The Quabbin Valley is a region of Massachusetts. The region consists of areas drained by the Quabbin Reservoir and accompanying river systems in Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, and Worcester counties. The area is sometimes known as the Swift River Valley region, a reference to the Swift River, wh..
Quabbs
Quabbs is a hamlet in Shropshire, England. It is located in the rural parish of Bettws-y-Crwyn in the South Shropshire district. The nearest village is Newcastle. Quabbs lies at 390m above sea level. See: Clun Valley, Clun. ..
Quack
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quack can refer to: the noise made by a duckthe noise made by a person who has "lost" their voicea person who practices quackery, i.e., an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicinecouch-grass or quack-grass, E..
Quackenbush rifle
The Quackenbush rifle is a clever but cheaply made "Boys' rifle" sold in large numbers in the 1893-1920 period, along with several models of air guns. They came with either a fixed wire stock or one that slid forward for use as a "bicycle rifle" nearly identical with the stock later used on the USA..
Quackerjack
Quackerjack. Quackerjack is a fictional character from the Disney television series Darkwing Duck, and a major rival of a popular video game star, Whiffle Boy. He was once a toymaker who was run out of business after the video game market expanded, but more because his toys were so lethal no ..
Quackery
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Quackmore Duck
Quackmore Duck is one of Walt Disney's comic book characters, the father of Donald Duck. He was born in Duckburg, Calisota, United States on 1875 to Humperdink Duck and Elvira Coot. From an early age it was obvious he had a very nasty temper. He worked in his parents' farm till 1902 when he met Hor..
Quackpotwatch
Quackpot Watch is the website of Tim Bolen (full name Patrick Timothy Bolen), a self-proclaimed health care consumer advocate, who is supportive of alternative medicine. He is very critical of outspoken skeptics he calls "quackpots" and "quackbuster conspirators," especially targeting Stephen Barret..
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a 1970 film directed by Waris Hussein and written by Gabriel Walsh. It starred Gene Wilder as the titular Quackser Fortune as a lazy Irishman who falls in love with an American exchange student, Margot Kidder, who almost runs him over. External links &#..
Quackshot
Quackshot is a platformer released for the Sega Genesis on December 19, 1991. It stars Donald Duck and his three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, as treasure-hunters. In Japan, this game was called Alive! Donald Duck: Georgia Ou no Hihou, but in America and Europe, the game was named Quackshot. Th..
Quackup
The Raytoons hero Jonathin Quackup is a fictional character who first appeared on the Raytoons Website in 1997. The character was created by artist and writer Raymond Mullikin. Jonathin Quackup has appeared as a web comic series, short film, and in a comic book series. Enemies of Quackup Jon has..
Quackwatch
Quackwatch is a website operated by Quackwatch, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose stated purpose is to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies" and whose "primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere". Quackwatch is operated b..
Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends
Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends was an American country rock band of the early 1970s. It was founded by D'Andrea (Danny) Bennett and Daegal (Dae) Bennett, both sons of legendary singer Tony Bennett; they comprised the rhythm section. Other members included Curtis Fried, Gordon Javna, and guit..
Quack Pack
Quack Pack was an animated television series made by the Walt Disney Company. The show debuted in September 1996 as a part of the Disney Afternoon weekday afternoon programming block, and lasted for one season of 39 episodes. The series centered around the adventures of Donald Duck and his nephews..
Quad
Contents 1 Architecture2 Games3 Music and theatre4 Science and mathematics5 Society and religion6 Sports7 Technology8 Vehicles9 Other Quad may refer to: Architecture Quadrangle in architecture, e.g., on a university campusQuad, a dormitory room or..
Quad-City Times
The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area (Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois). As it is a regional newspaper, the Quad-C..
Quad-edge data structure
A quad-edge data structure is a computer reprsentation of the topology of a two-dimensional map, that is, a graph drawn on a surface. External links http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/2001/pub/src/a2/quadedge.html A quad-edge implementation in C++.http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPOR..
Quad-ruled paper
Quad-ruled paper is paper that comes pre-printed with a grid of perpendicular lines. Quad ruled paper is particularly useful for hand drawing of graphs, charts, diagrams, and drawing geometrical shapes accurately. It is often used by students in helping them draw plans for various complex and simpl..
Quad/Graphics
Quad/Graphics is an American printing company based in Sussex, Wisconsin. It was founded on July 13, 1971. It is named after Harry R. "Senior" Quadracci, called "the Father of Web Offset Printing" [link]. The company has nine printing facilities in the United States, as well as partnershi..
Quadbox
Quadbox were a 3-piece Rock band from Sydney, Australia (1994-2000) Lineup Nat Nykyruj (vocals, drums)Shane McNeil (guitar, vocals)Clayton Segelov (bass, vocals Adrian Griffin (drummer for a year or so) Discography EPs 1995 - Rock Saved My Life (Stuntpram)1996 - I Think Therefore I Scam (Shock/Smas..
Quaderni
Quaderni (population est. 3,000) is a town in Villafranca di Verona's common. ..
Quadgt
Quadgt is an early 1970s text-based computer game for BASIC designed by People's Computer Company resembling Mastermind and Bagels, in which one must guess a 4-digit number which the computer is "thinking of." This game also has an attitude, limiting the number of guesses possible. The game appear..
Quadi
The Quadi were a smaller Germanic tribe, about which little definitive information is known. The history of non-literate peoples is written by their opponents, and we can only know the Germanic tribe the Romans called the 'Quadi' through Roman eyes. No pottery style or other remains of material cult..
Quadiary Cluster
Quadiary Clusters developed in the emerging markets of Structured Financial products, specifically Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO's) and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO's). A Quadiary Cluster represents 2 related pairs of Floater/Inverse Floater Tranches that are derived from a Fixed..
Quadiri Fula
Fula followers of the Qadiriyyah Sufi way. ..
QuadLife
QuadLife is a cellular automaton. It is the same as the Game of Life, except that it has four ON states. When a new cell is born, then if the three cells that gave it birth all are of different states, the new cell's state is the one remaining ON state. Otherwise, the new state is the state that is ..
Quadling Country
The Quadling Country is the southern division of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz. It is distinguished by the color red, worn by most of the local inhabitants as well as the color of their surroundings. Like all the countries of Oz, the Quadling Country contains various unusual sights and places. Amo..
Quadmount
The M45 Quadmount (nicknamed the "meat chopper" for its high rate of fire) was a weapon used in World War II, consisting of four Browning M2 machine guns mounted on a wheeled platform or vehicle. Another version consists of the same wheeled platform but instead of standing up behind the leg pod, the..
Quadoshka
Quodoushka is a sexual practice. similar to Tantric sex, claimed to be practiced by the North American Cherokee tribe. [[Citing sources citation needed]] In reality, not a Cherokee tradition or Native American tradition. It is primarily a sex workshop scam selling Pseudo-Nati..
Quadra
Quadra can mean: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, Spanish explorerQuadra Island, an island in British Columbia, Canada, which is named after the explorerQuadra, Brazil, a municipality also named for the explorerVancouver Quadra, a federal electoral district in British Columbia, CanadaMacintosh..
Quadra, Brazil
Quadra is a municipality (município) in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its latitude is 23.299/23°17'58' S and the longitude is 48.055/48°3'17' W. The population in 2004 is 3,035, the area is 205.52 km² The elevation is 638 m. ..
Quadragesima
For the season known as Quadragesima, see Lent. For the Sunday known as Quadragesima Sunday, see Quadragesima Sunday This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to poi..
Quadragesima Sunday
Quadragesima Sunday is the Sunday occurring after Ash Wednesday. In Roman Catholic tradition, it is the first Sunday during the holy season of Lent. Like on other Sundays of Lent, it is customary to dispense from the fast on Quadragesima, as Sundays are not counted among the forty days of Lent. Th..
Quadragesimo Anno
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Quadrajet
The Quadrajet is a 4 barrel carburetor made by the Rochester Products Division of GM that was widely used in General Motors motor vehicles until 1990, in which its last application was on the Oldsmobile 307 V8 engine, which was last used in in the Cadillac Brougham and full size station wagons mad..
Quadrangle
Quadrangle of University of Sydney In architecture, a quadrangle, or more colloquially, quad, is a space or courtyard, usually square or rectangular in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building. The word is probably most closely associated with coll..
Quadrangle (Harvard)
The Quadrangle, looking north toward Pforzheimer House. The Quadrangle at Harvard University, formerly called the Radcliffe Quadrangle or the Harvard Annex dorms, is part of Harvard's undergraduate campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Generally just called the Quad, it is a traditional colleg..
Quadrangle Club
For other uses, see Quadrangle Club (disambiguation). Quadrangle Club, often abbreviated to "Quad" is one of the ten eating clubs at Princeton University. Located at 33 Prospect Avenue, the club is "sign-in," which means that it permits any students to join, as opposed to other bicker (selective) ..
Quadrangle Club (disambiguation)
The Quadrangle Club may mean: Quadrangle Club, a dining club at Princeton UniversityQuadrangle Club (University of Chicago), the faculty club at the University of Chicago This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you ..
Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago)
For other uses, see Quadrangle Club (disambiguation). The Quadrangle Club is the name of a private club at the University of Chicago. It is located at 57th Street and University Avenue in Chicago, IL. It has a full-service dining room, a bar, several lounges, and sleeping quarters for members and/..
Quadrans
Quadrans of Domitian The quadrans (literally meaning a "a quarter") was low value Roman bronze coin worth 1/4th of an as. The quadrans was issued from the beginning of cast bronze coins during the Roman Republic with a three pellets (representing three unciae) as a mark of value. The obverse t..
Quadrans Muralis
Quadrans Muralis (Latin for mural quadrant) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1795. It was located between the constellations of Boötes and Ursa Major. It is no longer in use, but the Quadrantid meteor shower is named after it. References http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/horvatin/Astr..
Quadrant
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quadrant may refer to: A sector equal to one quarter of a circle, or half a semicircleHMS Quadrant (G11), a Second World War British/Australian warship.One of four regions of a Cartesian coordinate system#Two-dimensional coordinate ..
Quadrantids
The Quadrantids are a meteor shower. The meteors appear to radiate from an area inside the constellation Boötes. The name comes from Quadrans Muralis, an obsolete constellation that is now part of Boötes. The parent body of the Quadrantids was recently tentatively identified (in a [paper b..
Quadrant (automobile)
The Quadrant was an English company whose full name was the Quadrant Cycle Company based in Birmingham that made a few cars were made from 1905 to 1906 and motor cycles from 1900 to 1927. The company exhibited a car chassis with a four-speed Lloyd gearbox of the style known as "crossed rollers"; th..
Quadrant (magazine)
Quadrant is a conservative Australian literary and cultural journal founded in 1956 by James McAuley. Currently edited by Padraic (Paddy or P.P.) McGuinness, it reviews literature, as well as featuring essays on ideas and topics such as universities. Previous editors have included Robert Manne. Cu..
Quadrant 904
Quadrant 904 is an area of space in the fictional Star Trek universe. Quadrant 904 is mentioned in the [[Star Trek: The Original Series]] episode The Squire of Gothos. Although Quadrant 904 is called a "quadrant" it is more likely a sector of space. The Milky Way Galaxy is divided into four areas c..
Quadrant bus station
The Quadrant Bus Station is the main bus public-transport hub for Swansea, south Wales. It lies immediately to the west of the Quadrant Shopping Centre. The bus station opened along with the rest of the Quadrant Centre, replacing the old bus station opposite (next to the Grand Theatre). The bus s..
Quadrant Delta
Quadrant Delta is a Play by E-Mail (PBeM) role-playing game set in the Star Trek Universe. The game is set in the Delta Quadrant, approximately thirty-five years after the USS Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant. This is one of the longest running PBeM’s on the internet. It has been in one for..
Quadrant Shopping Centre
The Quadrant Shopping Centre is the principal under-cover shopping centre in the city of Swansea, Wales. It is a large building with two shopping levels and includes a range of high street shops and privately-owned boutiques. Opened in 1978, it is directly adjacent to Swansea Market in the city cen..
Quadraphonic
Quadraphonic sound uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other. Contents 1 History2 Formats2.1 '''Discrete:'''2.1.1 ..
Quadrapong
Quadrapong was a four-player version of Pong by Atari, the last Pong-based game they would sell. It was in a cocktail-table cabinet, with one player on each side controlling one paddle. When all four players were present, only the corners of the screen were walled off. A player would be eliminated ..
Quadrastate
Quadrastate is an 12" extended play by 808 State, released in 1989. It contains the original version of "Pacific State", one of the most popular tracks by 808 State. Contents 1 Track list1.1 Side A1.2 Side B2 Personnel3 See also Track list Side A Pacific State106State..
Quadrasteer
Quadrasteer is the name of the 4-wheel steering system developed by General Motors for use in automobiles, namely full-size pick-up trucks. The system was designed by the Delphi Corporation when it was owned by GM and is found on GM products. It is a tremendously useful feature to people who tow re..
Quadrate
Quadrate may refer to Quadrate boneQuadrate (heraldry)This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Quadratestadt
Quadratestadt (German: for "town of the squares") is the nickname of the German city of Mannheim. Mannheim is unique among German cities in that its central area is laid out in a grid pattern (called "Quadrate", squares), much like many North American cities. The main route through the squares lea..
Quadrate (heraldry)
In heraldry, quadrate means having a square (in the vernacular sense) protusion in the middle of the ordinary in question. ..
Quadrate bone
The quadrate is a jaw bone in all jawed vertebrates except mammals (in whom it has become a middle-ear bone, the incus). It connects to the quadratojugal and squamosal in the skull, and articulates with the lower jaw bone that is uncreatively called the articular. In snakes, this bone has become el..
Quadrathlon
A quadrathlon is an endurance sports event composed of four individual disciplines. All four disciplines are completed in succession and the lowest overall time decides the winner. The World Quadrathlon Federation defines that a quadrathlon consists of swimming,kayaking,cycling,running in the abov..
Quadrathon
Quadrathon or Quadrathlon is a four event sporting competition. Several combination exist of which the most popular is swimming (2 miles / 3.2 kilometers), walking (30 miles / 48 kilometers), bicycling (100 miles / 161 kilometers) and running (26.2 miles / 42 kilometers). The distances, time durat..
Quadratic assignment problem
The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of fundamental combinatorial optimization problems in the branch of optimization or operations research in mathematics, from the category of the facilities location problems. The problem models the following real-life problem: There are a set of n faci..
Quadratic classifier
A quadratic classifier is used in machine learning to separate measurements of two or more classes of objects or events by a quadric surface. It is a more general version of the linear classifier. The classification problem Statistical classification considers a set of vectors of observations x of..
Quadratic configuration interaction
Quadratic configuration interaction is an extension of Configuration interaction that corrects for size-consistency errors in the all singles and double excitation CI methods (CISD). Size-consistency means that the energy of two non-interacting (i.e. at large distance apart) molecules calculated dir..
Quadratic differential
In mathematics, a quadratic differential is a form on a Riemann surface that locally looks like the square of an abelian differential. It has (at least) two other interpretations that are useful in the study of Riemann surfaces: a flat structure on the Riemann surface, with a discrete set of singula..
Quadratic equation
Graph of a quadratic function: y = x2 − x − 2 = (x + 1)(x − 2)The x-coordinates of the points where the graph crosses the x-axis, x = −1 and x = 2, are the roots of the quadratic equation: x2 − x − 2 = 0 In mathematics, a quadratic equation is a polynomial..
Quadratic field
In mathematics, a quadratic field is an algebraic number field K of degree two over Q, which is to say of the form [K=\mathbb(\sqrt)] where d is a non-zero rational number. Such extensions run over all field extensions of the rational number field that are of degree 2 (quadratic extensio..
Quadratic form
In mathematics, a quadratic form is a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables. For example, the distance between two points in three-dimensional Euclidean space is found by taking the square root of a quadratic form involving six variables, the three coordinates of each of the ..
Quadratic form (statistics)
If [\epsilon] is a vector of [n] random variables, and [\Lambda] is an [n]-dimensional square matrix, then the scalar quantity [\epsilon'\Lambda\epsilon] is known as a quadratic form in [\epsilon]. Contents 1 Expectation2 Vari..
Quadratic function
f(x) = x2 - x - 2 A quadratic function, in mathematics, is a polynomial function of the form [f(x)=ax^2+bx+c \,\!], where [a \ne 0 \,\!]. It takes its name from the Latin quadratus for square, because quadratic functions arise in the calculation of areas of squares. Becaus..
Quadratic integral
In mathematics, a quadratic integral of the form [\int_^\ \frac ] may be computed by completing the square in the denominator. [\int_^\ \frac = \frac \int_^\ \frac \right)^2 + \left( \frac - \frac \right)}] Letting [u \equiv x + \frac ], define [ -A^2 \..
Quadratic irrational
In mathematics, a quadratic irrational, also known as a quadratic surd or quadratic irrationality, is an irrational number that is the solution to some quadratic equation with rational coefficients. Since fractions can be cleared from a quadratic equation by multiplying both sides by their common d..
Quadratic probing
Quadratic probing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving collisions in hash tables. Quadratic probing operates by taking the original hash value and adding successive values of an arbitrary quadratic polynomial to the starting value. This algorithm is used in open-addressed hash tables...
Quadratic programming
Quadratic programming (QP) is a special type of mathematical optimization problem. The quadratic programming problem can be formulated like this: Assume x belongs to [\mathbb^] space. The n×n matrix Q is symmetric, and c is any n×1 vector. Minimize (with respect to x) [..
Quadratic reciprocity
In number theory, the law of quadratic reciprocity connects the solvability of two related quadratic equations in modular arithmetic. As a consequence, it allows us to determine the solvability of any quadratic equation in modular arithmetic, even though it does not provide an efficient method for a..
Quadratic residue
In mathematics, a number q is called a quadratic residue modulo n if there exists an integer x such that: [\equiv\mboxn\mbox.] Otherwise, q is called a quadratic non-residue. For prime moduli, roughly half of the residue classes are of each type. More precisely, for prime p > 2, there a..
Quadratic residuosity problem
The quadratic residuosity problem in computational number theory is the question of distinguishing by calculation the quadratic residues in modular arithmetic for a modulus N, where N is a composite number. This is an important consideration in contemporary cryptography. (A note on terminology: math..
Quadratic sieve
The quadratic sieve algorithm (QS) is a modern integer factorization algorithm and, in practice, the second fastest method known (after the general number field sieve). It is still the fastest for integers under 110 decimal digits or so, and is considerably simpler than the number field sieve. It is..
Quadratic variation
In mathematics, quadratic variation is a concept in real analysis that gives an alternative to testing for differentiability. It is particularly useful for the analysis of Brownian motion and martingales. Contents 1 Definition2 Quadratic differentiability2.1 Theorem2.2 Proof ..
Quadratojugal
The quadratojugal is a small jaw bone that is present in most amphibians, reptiles and birds, but has been lost in mammals. It is connected to the jugal as well as other bones, though these many vary with species. ..
Quadratrix
In mathematics, a quadratrix (from the Latin word quadrator, squarer) is a curve having ordinates which are a measure of the area (or quadrature) of another curve. The two most famous curves of this class are those of Dinostratus and E. W. Tschirnhausen, which are both related to the circle. The qu..
Quadratura
Quadratura is a term introduced during the Baroque period to describe simulated architecture. Anamorphism relates directly to quadratura. Paintings on ceilings could, for example, simulate statues in niches or openings revealing the sky. Celebrated examples of this technique were produced by Pietro..
Quadrature
Quadrature, derived from Latin quadrare, may refer to: In signal processing: Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), a modulation method of using both a carrier wave and a 'quadrature' carrier wave that is 90° out of phase with the main carrierQuadrature phase, oscillations that are said to be in..
Quadrature amplitude modulation
Topics in Modulation techniques Analog modulation Amplitude modulation | Frequency modulation | Phase modulation Digital modulation ASK | PSK | FSK | QAM | Delta modulation | MSK [edit] QAM redirects here; for other uses of that abbreviation, see QAM (disambiguation). Quadra..
Quadrature booster
A quadrature booster, also known as a phase-shifting transformer, is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of real power on three-phase electricity transmission networks. Contents 0.1 Method of operation0.2 Arrangement1 Illustration of effect2 References ..
Quadrature filter
In signal processing, a quadrature filter [q(t)] is the analytic signal of a real-valued filter [f(t)]: [q(t) = f_(t) = \left(\delta(t) + \right) * f(t)] If the quadrature filter [q(t)] is applied to a signal [s(t)], the result is [h(t) = (q..
Quadrature mirror filter
In digital signal processing, a quadrature mirror filter is a filter bank which splits an input signal into two bands which are usually then subsampled by a factor of 2. The filters are related by the following formula: [|\hat(\xi)| + |\hat(\xi + \frac)| = 1] where [\xi] is t..
Quadrature phase
Communication signals often have the form: [A(t)\cdot \cos[omega t + phi(t)] \equiv I(t)\cdot \cos(\omega t) - Q(t)\cdot \sin(\omega t)\,] where [\omega\,] represents a carrier frequency, and: [I(t) = A(t)\cdot \cos[phi(t)]] [Q(t) = A(t)\cdot \..
Quadratus
Quadratus may refer to: Asinius Quadratus, the Roman historianQuadratus (apologist), the Christian writerQuadratus (anatomy), the anatomical termQuadratus (genus), a hagfish genus This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an refe..
Quadratus (apologist)
Quadratus was the first of the Christian apologists. He is said by Eusebius of Caesarea (Chronicon "ad annum Abrahamum 2041" (AD 124) to have been a disciple of the Apostles (auditor apostolorum). He addressed a discourse to the Roman Emperor Hadrian containing a defense, or apology, of the Christi..
Quadratus femoris muscle
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Quadratus lumborum muscle
The Quadratus lumborum is irregularly quadrilateral in shape, and broader below than above. It arises by aponeurotic fibers from the iliolumbar ligament and the adjacent portion of the iliac crest for about 5 cm., and is inserted into the lower border of the last rib for about half its length, an..
Quadratus of Athens
Quadratus of Athens was a Christian apologist who presented his defense of Christianity to Hadrian (ruled 117 - 138 CE) while the emperor was in Athens being initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries. Another apologist, Aristides, presented a similar work. Eusebius had copies of both essays. Because..
Quadratus plantae muscle
The Quadratus plantæ (Flexor accessorius) is separated from the muscles of the first layer by the lateral plantar vessels and nerve. It arises by two heads, which are separated from each other by the long plantar ligament: the medial or larger head is muscular, and is attached to the medial conc..
Quadra Island
Quadra Island is a small island community off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and is part of the Discovery Islands. Its population is estimated to be roughly 3,500. There are two small business centres on the island, one near the Vancouver Island ferry terminal at Qua..
Quadrelle
Quadrelle is a small village belonging to the Avellino region of Campania, Italy, in the province of Naples. ..
Quadrennial Defense Review
"QDR" redirects here. For the computer technology called QDR, see Quad Data Rate SDRAM. The Quadrennial Defense Review is a report by the United States Department of Defense that analyzes strategic objectives and potential military threats. External link [Quadrennial Defense Review] ..
Quadri
Quadri is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy Abruzzo · Communes of the province of Chieti Altino | Archi | Ari | Arielli | Atessa | Bomba | Borrello | Bucchianico | Canosa Sannita | Carpineto Sinello | Carunchio | Casacanditella | Casalanguida |..
Quadric
This is an article about quadric in mathematics, to see the computing company go to Quadrics. In mathematics a quadric, or quadric surface, is any D-dimensional hypersurface defined as the locus of zeros of a quadratic polynomial. In coordinates [\], the general quadric is defined by the..
Quadriceps muscle
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Quadrics
This is an article about the computing company, for use in mathematics, see quadric. Quadrics is a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. They produce hardware and software for clustering commodity CPU into massiv..
QuadricsRms
Quadrics Software is available as RMS (Resource Management System) and Open Source RMS and Open Source RMS is a Cluster resource manager software package. Core components of the QsNet software release for Linux under the GNU Public License (Quadrics Linux Software) Quadrics New Software Release in..
Quadricycle
Rhombus layout quadricycle (1886) Quadricycle (also spelled quadracycle or quadrocycle) is a four-wheeled vehicle. The most common layout is when the wheels are placed at the angles of a rectangle.  The alternative layout is when wheels are placed at the angles of a rhombus (or, more gene..
Quadric (projective geometry)
In mathematics, in the area of projective geometry, a quadric in a projective space is the set of points represented by vectors on which a certain non-trivial quadratic form becomes zero. Contents 1 Definition2 Basis representation and formula3 Intersection of lines with quadrics4&..
Quadrifilar Helix Antenna
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Quadrifolium
The quadrifolium is a type of rose curve with n=2. It has polar equation: [r = \cos(2\theta),] with corresponding algebraic equation [(x^2+y^2)^3 = (x^2-y^2)^2.] Rotated by 45°, this becomes [r = \sin(2\theta)] with corresponding algebraic equation [(x^2..
Quadrifrons
Quadrifrons is a Latin word, meaning four fronted or four faced, particularly: Form of triumphal arch (eg at Glanum, Arch of Janus, Rutupiae) with four arches (one pair opposite each other, and the second pair opposite each other at right angles) and hence with barrel vaulted passageway in the fo..
Quadriga
Quadriga, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Quadriga, Wellington Arch, London Quadriga, Arc du Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris The Triumphal Quadriga in Venice, the only surviving ancient quadriga The monument of Victor Emmanuel II Progress of the State, Minnesota State Ca..
Quadrigatus
Anonymous. Circa 225-212 BC. AR Didrachm or Quadrigatus (5.57 g). Laureate head of Janus / Jupiter in quadriga driven by Victory; ROMA raised on outlined tablet. The quadrigatus was a medium-sized silver coin produced by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century BC. The obverse featured a youn..
Quadriga Productions
Quadriga Productions is a production company set up in 1999 by actor/director/writer Andrew Kazamia. They have produced two award-winning short films and currently have three feature films in pre-production/production. Links: [Quadriga Productions] ..
Quadrilateral
For other uses, see Quadrilateral (disambiguation) In geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides and four vertices. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used, for etymological symmetry with triangle, and sometimes tetragon for consistence with pentagon. Contents 1 Classification2&..
Quadrilateral (disambiguation)
The word quadrilateral can mean: In geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with 4 sides.In the Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states, the Quadrilateral (Quadrilatero) was the group of fortresses at Mantua, Verona, Peschiera and Legnago.In the Battle of the Somme in World War I, the Quadrilatera..
Quadriliteral
In the terminology used to discuss the grammar of the Semitic languages, a quadriliteral is a consonantal root containing a sequence of four consonants (instead of three consonants, as is more often the case). A quadriliteral form is a word derived from such a four-consonant root. For example, the..
Quadrille
Quadrille is an historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to traditional square dancing. It is also a style of music. The term may also refer to quad paper. Contents 1 The beginning – horsemen2 From paired horses to paired dancers3 '''Dances wi..
Quadrille (play)
Quadrille is a 1950s play by British actor and playwright Noel Coward. It was written during a period of declining popularity in Coward's career and failed to generate much positive response. ..
Quadrillion
This article is about the short scale quadrillion. For details about differing meanings of the word, see long and short scales. One quadrillion, 10^15, 1,000,000,000,000,000 is a large number that comes after trillion. In the long scale, this number is refer to as a billiard. Quadrillion is the lo..
Quadring
Quadring is a small village north of Gosberton, Lincolnshire. Humorously the name literally means "muddy dump". The local school, Quadring Cowley and Browns Primary School, has consistently high SAT results every year and despite its size maintains a variety of extra curricular activities. The loc..
Quadripartite Agreement
A Quadripartite Agreement is a treaty between four states or four commercial parties. The most famous Quadripartite Agreement is that of the Four Power Agreement on Berlin of September 3, 1971 between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France. Another one was that on inte..
Quadriplegia
Quadriplegia, also known as tetraplegia, is a symptom in which a human experiences paralysis of all four limbs, although not necessarily total paralysis. It is caused by damage to the brain or to the spinal cord at a high level (e.g. spinal cord injuries secondary to an injury to the cervical spine..
Quadriplegic twelve
The Quadriplegic Twelve is a Canadian indie rock band based in Brampton, Ontario. The band is currently signed to pioneering Canadian independent record label Weener Records. Formed in 1999, the Quadriplegic Twelve is regarded for their quirky songwriting, musical experimentation and most of all, t..
Quadripoint
In geography, a quadripoint is a point on the Earth that touches four distinct regions. A "four corners" is a type of quadripoint but not every quadripoint can be called a "four corners". (For example, imagine a straight line running east-west, with one single region to the north of the line while t..
Quadrivium
The quadrivium comprised the four subjects, or arts, taught in medieval universities after the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning "the four ways" or "the four roads": the completion of the liberal arts. At many medieval universities, this would have been the course leading to the degree of Mas..
Quadroni of St. Charles
The Quadroni ("big paintings") of St. Charles Borromeo are two cycles of paintings depicting the life and miracles of the first Saint of the Counter Reformation. These very large paintings (approx. 197" x 236") are displayed during the month of November in the Duomo of Milan in honor of St. Charles'..
Quadroon
The terms quadroon and octoroon, and more rarely quintroon, were historically racial categories of hypodescent in Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana. "Quadroon" (from the Spanish cuarterón "quarter") denoted one quarter black ancestry; that is..
Quadrophenia
For the film based on this album, see Quadrophenia (film) Quadrophenia was a double album released by The Who on October 19 1973, one of the group's two full-scale rock operas (except in a conventional use of the word "opera" as Quadrophenia is mostly a monologue work rather than a varied drama). ..
Quadrophenia (film)
Quadrophenia is a 1979 British film based on the 1973 album by The Who. The film stars Phil Daniels as a Mod named Jimmy. The film also stars Toyah Willcox, Mark Wingett, John Altman, Leslie Ash, Ray Winstone and Sting. In 1964 London, Jimmy Cooper, is a member of a Mod gang - well-dressed youths..
Quadropus
Quadropus is the third full length album by Estradasphere. It was released on October 28, 2003. For Quadropus, Estradasphere made a conscious decision to isolate the genres for each track, instead of including many genres in a single song. For example, "Mekapses Yitonisa" doesn't stray far from i..
Quadrotor
A Quadrotor is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by four rotors. Quadrotors are classified as rotary-wing aircraft, as opposed to fixed-wing aircraft. Unlike the pure (as opposed to compound) helicopter, quadrotor craft can use fixed-pitch blades, as control of the vehicles motion can be a..
Quadrotour-Aero
Quadrotour-Aero is a Kyrgystan based airline operating a single IL-62. Aircraft is the original model and one of only a handfull of those still operational. At the time of writing (December 2005) their operating status is unknown. Lists of Aircraft | Aircraft manufacturers | Aircraft engines ..
Quadrumana
Quadrumana and Bimana form an obsolete division of the primates: the Quadrumana ("four-handed ones") being primates with opposable digits (thumbs) on all four limbs, and the Bimana ("two-handed ones") being those with opposable digits on the forelimbs only, this latter group contains humans only. Th..
Quadrun
This article is about a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console. History Quadrun was published in 1983 by Atari. One of the four Atari Club games available exclusively via mail order, this title may have been available later in stores in very limited quantities. This is one of the rarest..
Quadruped
The Zebra is an example of a quadruped. Quadrupedalism (from Latin, meaning "four legs") is a form of land animal locomotion using four legs. The majority of walking animals are quadrupeds, including mammals such as cattle and cats, and reptiles, like lizards. Birds, humans, insects, crustacea..
Quadruple
A quadruple is a term from mathematics, depicting an n-tuple with n being 4. This means it depicts four elements, with the order of the elements carrying meaning. This differs from a set, where the order of the elements is meaningless and where no element could exist more than once. Derived from thi..
Quadruple-double
A quadruple-double is a basketball term, defined as an individual performance in a game in which a player accumulates a double digit number total in any four of these categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots. In NBA history, only four players have recorded quadruple-double p..
Quadruple Alliance
The term "Quadruple Alliance" refers to several historical military alliances; none of which remain in effect. 1- The Quadruple Alliance of 1674 was an alliance between the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Electorate of Brandenburg, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in the c..
Quadruple bond
A quadruple bond is a type of chemical bond between to atoms involving 8 electrons. This bond is an extension of the familiar types of bonding covalent bonds, double bonds and triple bonds To Boldly Pass the Metal-Metal Quadruple Bond Udo Radius, Frank Breher Angewandte Chemie International Edition ..
Quadruple D
Quadruple D (which stands for "Do the DirectDraw with Delphi") is a DirectX library for Delphi developed by a Japanese programmer named "SANDMAN". It has become the de-facto graphics library for Japanese PC games written in Delphi. In addition to DirectX routines, the library also includes the "Qua..
Quadruple data rate
Quadruple data rate (or quad pumping) is a microprocessor communication technique wherein data is transmitted four times for each clock cycle. Intel's Pentium 4 utilizes this technique to achieve an effective 800 MHz (200 MHz × 4), or more recently an effective 1066 MHz (266 MHz..
Quadruple precision
In computing, quad precision is a computer numbering format that occupies four storage locations in computer memory at address, address+1, address+2, and address+3. A quad-precision number, sometimes simply a quad, may be defined to be an integer, fixed point, or floating point. In the IEEE 754r p..
Quadruple reed
A quadruple reed is a type of reed by means of which the sound is originated in various wind instruments. The term "quadruple reed" comes from the fact that there are four pieces of dried palm leaf vibrating against each other, in pairs. The quadruple reed operates in a similar way as the double re..
Quadruply clad fiber
In fiber optics, a quadruply clad fiber is a single-mode optical fiber that has four claddings. Each cladding has a refractive index lower than that of the core. With respect to one another, their relative refractive indices are, in order of distance from the core: lowest, highest, lower, higher. ..
Quadrupole
Schematic quadrupole magnet("four-pole") used to focus particle beams in a particle accelerator. There are four steel pole tips, two opposing magnetic north poles and two opposing magnetic south poles. The steel is magnetized by a large electric current that flow in the coils of tubing wrapped ar..
Quadrupole ion trap
A quadrupole ion trap (also known as a Paul trap, QIT, twisted quadrupole ion trap or sometimes just ion trap) refers to an ion trap that uses static and radio frequency (RF) ~1MHz oscillating AC electric fields to trap ions as well a mass spectrometer that uses such a trap to analyze ions. The inve..
Quadrupole magnet
Quadrupole magnets, sometimes called correctors, are designed to create a magnetic field whose magnitude grows linearly with the radial distance from its longitudinal axis, which is usually centered on and parallel to the main motion of the charged particles. The net result of these fields is a focu..
Quadrupole mass analyzer
The quadrupole mass analyzer is one type of mass analyzer used in mass spectrometry. In a quadrupole mass spectrometer the quadrupole mass analyzer is the component of the instrument responsible for filtering sample ions, based on their mass-to-charge ratio (m/q). A quadrupole mass analyzer is essen..
Quads!
Quads! is a Canadian animated show starring a character in a wheelchair. It airs on The Comedy Channel in Australia. External link [IMDB entry] ..
Quadski
The Quadski is an amphibious quad bike/ATV vehicle launched in May 2006 by New Zealand inventor Alan Gibbs - the chairman and founder of Gibbs Technologies. The Quadski is a high-powered, fully functional quad bike that converts to a jet ski in a matter of seconds. It features a top speed of 72 ..
Quadtree
The Quadtree is a tree data structure in which each internal node has up to four children. Quadtrees are most often used to partition a two dimensional space by recursively subdividing it into four quadrants or regions. The regions may be square or rectangular, or may have arbitrary shapes. This ..
Quad (music)
Quad or QUAD was the name of a solo music project by Gary Ramon. During his six-year hiatus from Sun Dial, Ramon embarked on an ambitious solo project, Quad, which combined ambient electronica with kraut rock. The result was a pair of self-titled albums. The first of these was released on Ramon's..
Quad (Sword of Truth)
A Quad is a term used in the Sword of Truth fantasy series by Terry Goodkind. Description A Quad is a specially trained group of four assassins from D'Hara assigned primarily to hunt down and kill Confessors. Richard is bigger than most men and members of a quad are much bigger than him. Quads of..
Quad antenna
Sometimes called the "Cubical Quad" which is frequently used by amateur radio operators. Developed by Clarance C. Moore, W9LZX, an enginner at HCJB a shortwave missionary radio station high in the Andean Mountians. He developed it to resolve issues with large coronal discharges in the thin air wit..
Quad band
Quad band literally means four (4) bands. Most people come across the term when it is used to describe a GSM mobile phone. The GSM standard originated in Europe, where mobile phones occupy two frequency bands: one in the 900-MHz range and one in the 1800-MHz range. When GSM technology crossed th..
Quad Cities
The I-74 Bridge, connecting Bettendorf, Iowa and Moline, Illinois is located near the geographic center of the Quad Cities. The John Deere Pavilion in Moline --> For the nuclear power plant, see the Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station. The Quad Cities are a group of cities which fla..
Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station
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Quad City Botanical Center
The Quad City Botanical Center is a set of botanical gardens located next to the Mississippi River at 2525 4th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois. It is open daily except major holidays; an admission fee is charged. The center opened on June 20, 1998. Its gardens include: Sun Garden conservatory (6,444..
Quad City DJ's
Quad City DJ's is the music artist and producer duo of C.C. Lemonhead (Nathaniel Orange) and Jay Ski (Johnny McGowan) who produced the Miami bass hit "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" in 1995. The two first partnered in 1992 during high school in Jacksonville, Florida. As 95 South they worked with Thr..
Quad City International Airport
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Quad City Mallards
The Quad City Mallards' logo The Quad City Mallards are an ice hockey team that began play in 1995-1996. They are a member of the United Hockey League. The Mallards play their home games at the Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, Illinois. The team colors are forest green and burgundy. Cha..
Quad City Steamwheelers
The Quad City Steamwheelers are a professional arena football team. They are a member of the Af2. They play their home games at The MARK of the Quad Cities in Moline, Illinois. The team played its inaugural season in 2000 and dominated the league for its first two seasons. They went a perfect 19..
Quad damage
The Quad damage is a powerup in the first-person shooter computer game series Quake. The Power Up Quad Damage power-up, as seen in the original Quake. In Quake the Quad damage is a floating arcane rune that resembles the letter 'Q', as a crescent with a spike through it. It is the logo of t..
Quad Data Rate SDRAM
Quad Data Rate (QDR) SDRAM is a type of computer memory, more specifically a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory, that can transfer four words of data in each clock cycle. Like Double Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM, QDR SDRAM transfers data on both rising and falling edges of the clock signal. ..
Quad Digital Audio Processor
The Quad Digital Audio Processor (QDAP) was a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based printed circuit card designed at Computer Consoles Inc. (CCI) in Rochester, NY. The QDAP was a service circuit module developed as part of the companies digital telephony switching system. The main function of the ..
Quad Electroacoustics
This article is about the hi-fi manufacturer. For the music project, see Quad (music). Quad Electroacoustics is a British manufacturer of hi-fi equipment, based in Huntingdon, England. Contents 1 Corporate history2 Pioneering Audio Products3 Milestones4 External links Cor..
Quad G5
Quad G5, Apple Power Macintosh, introduced October 19 2005. On October 19 2005 Apple unveiled a new generation of Power Macintosh. Unlike its predecessors with two 64-bit processors, the aptly named quad sports four G5 64-bit processors. External links ["Apple Website: PowerMac"] ..
Quad Helix
A Quad Helix orthodontic appliance A Quad Helix (or quadhelix) is an orthodontic appliance for the upper teeth that is cemented in the mouth. It is attached to the molars by 2 bands and has four active helix springs that widen the arch of the mouth to make room for crowded teeth, or correct a ..
Quad paper
Quad paper is a common form of graph paper with a sparse grid printed in light blue or gray and right to the edge of the paper. ..
Quad sli
Quad SLI is the term of two Nvidia GeForce 7900GX2 or 7950GX2 Graphics cards running on the same computer. Quad being short for quadruple, meaning four elements. With 2 Geforce 7950GX2 Graphics cards, on a Scalable Link Interface mainboard you have the power of 4 Graphics cards in a single computer..
Quad Tilt Rotor
A Quad Tilt Rotor (QTR) is a larger four rotor version of a Tiltrotor aircraft. It has 2 sets of fixed wings and 4 tilting rotors mounted at the tips of the wings. The program has been nicknamed the V-44 Tiltrotor for the four Tiltrotor version and V-66 Tiltrotor for the six tiltrotor version. These..
Quaero
Quaero (I seek in Latin) is the name given to the project of a European Internet search engine, a project to which Thomson, France Télécom, Siemens AG (replacing Deutsche Telekom in January 2006), Thales, Bertin Technologies, Exalead, Jouve, Synapse Développement, LTU Technologies, Vecsys and Emp..
Quaesitosaurus
Quaesitosaurus ("extraordinary lizard") is a Cretaceous sauropod (the last of this order) found by Kurzanov and Bannikov in 1983. The type species is Quaesitosaurus orientalis. Quaesitosaurus grew 23 meters long. It lived from 80 to 65 million years ago. References [Enchanted Learning on Qua..
Quaesitum est
Quaesitum est is a declaration by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith forbidding Roman Catholics from joining Masonic organizations. It was issued in 1983 by the prefect of the congregation, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, better known now as Pope Benedict XVI. Contents 1 History of Ca..
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae (Certain philosophical questions) is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his early years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day that interested him. Apart from the light it throws on the forma..
Quaestor
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Topics in Roman government Roman Kingdom Roman Republic Roman Empire Principate Dominate Western Empire Eastern Empire Ordinary magistrates: PraetorQuaestorPromagistrate AedileTribuneCensorGovernor Extraordinary magistrates: Magister EquitumConsul..
Quaestor (disambiguation)
The term Quaestor can refer to any number of officials in charge of finances: A Quaestor was a magistrate in the Roman Republic responsible for civil and military finances.The Quaestor (St Andrews University) is the Finance Director and Treasurer.Quaestor (European Parliament) are officials elected..
Quaestor (European Parliament)
For other uses of "", see {{{1. Five Quaestors in the European Parliament look after the interests of Members of the European Parliament. The current Quaestors, elected July 21, 2004, are: Name Party Country Mia de Vits PES Belgium Genowefa Grabowska PES Poland Astrid Lulling EPP-ED Luxembour..
Quaestor (St Andrews University)
For other uses of "", see {{{1. The Quaestor at the University of St Andrews is a senior executive, member of the University Court and is responsible for the finances of the University; the equivalent of treasurer or Finance Director in other institutions. They are a member of the Office of the Pr..
Quafe
Quafe, as shown on billboards in the Eve gameworld. Quafe, as was sold in the "real world" by the Eve Store. Quafe is the name of a tradeable item in the huge MMORPG universe of EVE Online. On the 22nd of October 2004, CCP - the creators of EVE - made a marketing first when they launche..
Quagga
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid stripes on the front part of the body only. In the mid-se..
Quagga (disambiguation)
Quagga may refer to: Quagga, an extinct subspecies of the plains zebraQuagga Project, an attempt to bring back the Quagga from extinctionQuagga Software Routing Suite, the unofficial successor to GNU Zebra routing software suiteQuagga, the code name for the software that runs the Free Software Foun..
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Quagga mussel
--> The Quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) is one of seven Dreissena species. This species is indigenous to the Dnieper River drainage of Ukraine. The Quagga mussel was first observed in North America in September 1989 when it was discovered in Lake Erie near Port Colburne. It was not identifie..
Quagga Project
The Quagga Project is an attempt by a group of dedicated people in South Africa to bring back the Quagga (Equus quagga quagga) from extinction and reintroduce it into reserves in its former habitat. In 1955, Lutz Heck suggested in his book "Grosswild im Etoshaland" that careful selective breeding ..
Quaggoth
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the quaggoth is a monstrous humanoid. Description Quaggoths are about 7 feet tall and covered in shaggy white hair. They are usually neutral in alignment. Society Quaggoths are savage, bestial hunters who usually live underground. References Br..
Quagmire
Quagmire can refer to any of the following: Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. [[wiktionary:quagmire|quagmire]] is an English noun, derived from "quake" + "mire", meaning literally "shaky, miry ground." (See swamp.) It is frequently used metaphorically to describe mi..
Quagmire McDuck
Quagmire McDuck is one of Walt Disney's comic book characters. He was first mentioned by Carl Barks in the story "The Heirloom Watch", published on June, 1955. Quagmire was a descendant of Hugh McDuck and older brother of Dingus McDuck. He had inherited his ancestor's silver watch. Apparently he wa..
Quagsire
Quagsire (ヌオー Nuoh in Japan, Morlord in Germany and Maraiste in France), the Water Fish Pokémon, is a fictional character from the Pokémon franchise. It is #195 in the National Pokédex. It evolves from Wooper at level 20. Quagsire first appeared in the second generation of video games, Po..
Quahog (Family Guy)
Quahog (pronounced "koh-hawg", IPA /kohɑɡ/, "kwag", or "kwa-HOG", IPA /kwɑhɑɡ/) is a fictional suburb of Providence, Rhode Island where the TV show Family Guy is set. In certain scenes of the Griffin family home shown in every episode, the Providence skyline can be seen in t..
Quah Chow Cheung
Quah Chow Cheung (柯昭璋) was the Colony Commissioner of Hong Kong Scouting from 1950 to 1953, succeeding Nelson Victor Halward. He was the first Chinese Colony Commissioner in Hong Kong Scouting. Before that appointment, he was appointed by Halward as one of two Chinese District Commissioner an..
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Quaich
--> A Quaich (IPA: 'kweɪx') (or archaically Quaigh), is a special kind of shallow two-handled drinking cup or bowl in Scotland. It derives from the Scottish Gaelic cuach meaning a cup. Traditionally they were made of wood, an artform known as treen. Commemorative quaichs awarded as prizes, or g..
Quaid
The name Quaid might refer to: Dennis Quaid, American actor (Randy Quaid's brother).Randy Quaid, American actor (Dennis Quaid's brother).Quaid-e-Azam, another name for Mohammad Ali Jinnah, meaning "father of the nation."Quaid-e-Azam International Airport, the former name for Jinnah International A..
Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum
Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum is the mausoluem of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, foundar of Pakistan. It is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum is the beautiful Mughal style building that is the most famous landmark of Karachi. ..
Quaid-i-Azam Academy
Quaid-i-Azam Academy is an institution of Pakistan Government to promote the study and understanding of the personality and work ofQuaid-i-Azam, his associates, the Pakistan Movement and of the various aspects of Pakistan. It was established on the occasion of the 100th Birth Anniversary of Quaid-..
Quaid-i-Azam House
Quaid-i-Azam House The Quaid-i-Azam House and Museum, earlier known as the Flag Staff House, is located on the Fatima Jinnah Road in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, and like almost all other houses on the road, was originally owned by a Parsi business tycoon. Father of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad A..
Quaid-I-Azam Stadium
Quiad-I-Azam Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Mirpur, Kashmir, Pakistan. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches. The stadium holds 45,000. ..
Quaid-i-Azam University
Quaid-i-Azam University (sometimes romanized as Quaid-e-Azam) is the largest public-sector university in Islamabad, Pakistan. It was founded in 1965 and made a university in 1967, then called the University of Islamabad. It was renamed in 1976. The name means "Great Leader" and refers to title of Mo..
Quaife
Quaife Engineering, Ltd. is a noted British manufacturer of automotive drivetrain products, such as replacement gearboxes and gear sets, 4WD systems, and limited slip differentials. External links [Quaife's main website] ..
Quail
Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae, or in the family Odontophoridae. This article deals with the Old World species in the former family. The New World quails are not closely related, but are named for their similar appearance and beh..
Quail, Texas
Quail is a census-designated place (CDP) in Collingsworth County, Texas, United States. The population was 33 at the 2000 census. Geography Quail is located at [34°55′8″N, 100°23′13″W] (34.918915, -100.386829)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United Stat..
Quails in cookery
The quail family of birds includes edible game species. The Common Quail was previously much favoured in French cooking, but quail for the table are now more likely to be domesticated Japanese Quail. Quail are commonly eaten complete with the bones, since these are easily chewed and the small size o..
Quail Botanical Gardens
General view of the Quail Botanical Gardens. Thorny detail. The Quail Botanical Gardens 30 acres (12.1 ha) are located at 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, California, USA, and include rare bamboo groves (said to be the largest bamboo collection in the United States), desert gardens, ..
Quail Creek, Grove City, Ohio
Quail Creek is a neighborhood in Grove City, Ohio. On the standard scale from poorest to richest: Lower class, lower-middle class, middle class, upp-middle class, upper class, Quail Creek is considered a Level 4, or upper-middle class neighborhood. It is in southern Grove City, and is within the ..
Quail Dobbs
Quail Dobbs (born 27 August 1941) is a famous rodeo clown and performer. Dobbs was born in Albany, Texas and graduated from Colorado High School in Colorado City, Texas. After graduation he worked the rodeo circuit as a tack man and livestock handler, and had begun competing in the bronc riding an..
Quail Island
Quail Island lies within Lyttelton Harbour in the South Island of New Zealand. It is known to the Maori as Otamahua. The island has in the past been used as a leper colony and animal quarantine station. The island is currently being revegetated with the intention of reintroducing [[wiktionary:nat..
Quail Mountains
The Quail Mountains are located southwest of Death Valley National Park in eastern California, USA. The range lies to the north of the Granite Mountains and south of the Owlshead Mountains, and reaches an elevation of 1,555 meters above sea level. The mountains lie along the border of Death Valley N..
Quail Unlimited
Quail Unlimited is a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to the wise use and management of America's wild quail, doves, upland game birds and other forms of wildlife based in Edgefield, SC. Quail Unlimited was founded in 1981 to battle the problem of dwindling quail populations and decli..
Quail Valley, California
Quail Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 1,639 at the 2000 census. Geography Quail Valley is located at [33°42′24″N, 117°14′46″W] (33.706595, -117.246094)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According ..
Quaint
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. QUAINT (French cointe, from Latin cognitus, known, probably influenced by association with Latin corn ptus, neat), an adjective meaning unusual or fanciful, often applied to things with a sense of old-fashioned charm or prettiness...
Quainton
Quainton parish church and 17th century Winwood Almshouses Quainton (formerly Quainton Malet) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, about 5 miles north west of Aylesbury. The total population is 1290, of that total approximately 1000 are adults. The village has a church, school and two p..
Quainton Church of England Combined School
Quainton Church of England Combined School is a mixed Church of England primary school in Quainton, Buckinghamshire. It is a voluntary controlled school, which takes children from the age of 4 through to the age of 11. The school has approximately 180 pupils. External links [Ofsted Report ..
Quainton railway station
Quainton Road railway station at Quainton in Buckinghamshire, England was a through station on the impoverished Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway (A&BR), a branch line running from Aylesbury station, connecting with the GWR, to Verney Junction, connecting with the LNWR cross-country route between Oxfor..
Quair
Quair can refer to A Scots word for book, as in The Kingis Quair or A Scots QuairQuair Water, a tributary of the River Tweed This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link ..
Quai d'Orsay
View of the Quai d'Orsay The Quai d'Orsay is a quay in the VIIe Arrondissement of Paris, part of the left bank of the Seine, and the name of the street along it. The Quai becomes the Quai Anatole France east of the Palais Bourbon, and the Quai de Branly west of the Pont de l'Alma. The Fren..
Quai des Orfèvres
Quai des Orfèvres is a 1947 film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It starred Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet and Simone Renant. Plot Jenny Lamour (Delair) wants to succeed in the theatre. Her husband and manager is Maurice Martineau (Blier), a nice but jealous man. When he found out th..
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Quai du Louvre
The Quai du Louvre is by the River Seine where the Louvre is located in Paris, France. The Louvre's address is 36, Quai du Louvre. To the north is the Place du Louvre. External links [Quai du Louvre painting] by Claude Monet[Quai du Louvre photograph] ..
Quajabin Peak
--> Quajaban Peak, also known as County Peak, is a small eminence located in the western zone of the Western Australian wheatbelt, about 120km south-east of Perth. Although not high in stature, it commands an impressive view over some of the upper catchment of the Avon River and also of the Yenyenn..
Quaject
In object-oriented programming, an object is a structure that holds variables that define its state; Operations, or methods, are then written to manipulate this data. In contrast, a quaject is a type of object that keeps a copy of its methods as part of its data load. The methods exist verbatim in..
Quake
Zombies attacking the player. Quake is a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on June 22 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake series of computer and video games. It can be said that the original Quake game pushed most PC hardware to its limits, due..
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QuakeC
QuakeC is a scripting language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the computer game Quake. Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize Quake to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and physics, and programming complex scenarios. It can be used to..
QuakeCon
The Official Quakecon logo Quakecon is a bring-your-own-computer computer gaming event held every year in Dallas, Texas, USA. The event, which is named after id Software's game Quake, sees thousands of gamers from all over the world attend every year to celebrate the company's gaming dynasty...
QuakeForge
[QuakeForge] is a project with the aim of enhancing all the major engine components of the game Quake by id Software whose sourcecode was released under the terms of the GPL in 1999. Despite never having gained the level of popularity that some of the competing projects such as MQWCL, Fuh..
Quakemaster
Quakemaster is a fictional supervillain in DC Comics. Character history Robert Coleman was an architect of some note in Gotham City. His reputation was irreparably damaged when an apartment complex he designed and built did not withstand a hurricane. Feeling that he had been wrongly branded. Col..
Quakenbrück
Quakenbrück is a town in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Hase. It is part of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Artland. ..
QuakeNet
IRC networks QuakeNet Undernet IRCnet EFnet DALnet freenode GameSurge Rizon Aitvaras AbleNET AfterNET AustNet Blitzed ChatAutism ChatX DeltaAnime Enter The Game EsperNet GameRadius IRCHighway LinkNet NetGamers Phishy SlashNET StarLink.Org StarLink-IRC VKT QuakeNet is ..
Quakers Hill, New South Wales
Quakers Hill is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It was first mentioned in a surveyor's report in 1806. There were Quaker settlers in the area some years later, but it is doubted they were the reason for the suburb's name. The first p..
Quakers Hill Bombers
The Quakers Hill Bombers are an Australian Rules Football club located in western Sydney, Australia. For many years, this club has been a part of the 'Northside' competition, but moved to the 'Great Western' competition at the end of the 2005 season. As there are not enough players, there are no 'di..
Quakers Hill railway station, Sydney
Quakers Hill is a station on the CityRail Richmond line. It serves a residential community. Until the line from Marayong was duplicated, the station had a crossing loop using up and down working. Several bus services provide connection services to extend the service area. Quakers hill is two ..
Quakers in Europe
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Quakers in Kenya
Kenya contains the largest body of Quakers in a single nation. There were about 130,000 members of the Religious Society of Friends there, in the year 2000 (according to the Friends World Committee for Consultation). The Quaker faith has been thriving and growing in Kenya for over 100 years. Histor..
Quakers in Latin America
Latin America contains a sizeable percentage of Quakers worldwide, about 17.5%, according to the Friends World Committee for Consultation. Latin American members of the Religious Society of Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Guatemala, but they are found in several other countries as well. ..
Quakers in North America
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Quakers in science
The Religious Society of Friends encouraged some values which may have been conducive to encouraging scientific talents. A theory suggested by David Hackett Fischer in his book Albion's Seed indicated early Quakers in the US preferred "practical study" to the more traditional studies of Greek or La..
Quakers Yard
Quakers Yard is a community in the Welsh county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. ..
Quakers Yard railway station
Quakers Yard railway station is a railway station serving the community of Quakers Yard in the village of Treharris in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It is located on the Merthyr branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales. External links [Train times&#..
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The borough is 16 miles (26 km) south of Bethlehem and 35 miles north of Philadelphia. Quakertown marks the southern border of the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In the nineteenth century, local indu..
Quaker (disambiguation)
Quaker is a reference to the Religious Society of Friends, a religious community. Quaker could also refer to: The Quaker Oats Company, a U.S. food company.Quaker State, a motor oil.Quaker Parrot, a species of parrot.Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania.Quak..
Quaker Bible
The Quaker Bible is a translation into English of the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible. It was translated in 1764 by Anthony Purver, a Quaker, hence the name Quaker Bible. Its full official title is A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with no..
Quaker City, Ohio
Quaker City is a village in Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. The population was 563 at the 2000 census. Geography Quaker City is located at [39°58′11″N, 81°17′56″W] (39.969740, -81.298988)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Burea..
Quaker City Bank
1920: Mutual Building and Loan Association was established in a small office on Philadelphia Street in Whittier, California, the first institution devoted exclusively to encouraging thrift and making home loans. Assets totalled about $200,000 by the end of the first year and continued to grow throu..
Quaker Gap, North Carolina
Quaker Gap is a small unincorporated community in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in Stokes County, approximately five miles southwest of county seat Danbury, near Hanging Rock State Park. External links ..
Quaker Gun
Quaker Guns used at Centreville, Virginia in March, 1862 A Quaker Gun is a simulated cannon made from a wooden log, sometimes painted black, used to deceive an enemy into believing a foe possesses excess guns. On December 4, 1780 Continental Army Colonel William Washington used a Quaker Gun d..
Quaker Hill
Quaker Hill, Connecticut, is a village in the town of Waterford, Connecticut, in the southeastern part of the state. It is bordered to the east by the Thames River. It is bordered to the south by the city of New London, to the north by the town of Montville and to the west by the Cohanzie district..
Quaker history
The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, is a religious or spiritual movement that began in England in the 17th century. In the early days it faced opposition and persecution; however, it continued to expand, extending into many parts of the world, especially the Americas and eastern..
Quaker Meeting House
Currently a part of the Peabody Essex Museum the first Quaker Meeting House (Federal Garden area) in Salem, Massachusetts was built around 1688. The current building, erected in 1865 to resemble a Post-Medieval or First Period structure, is a reconstruction of the Quaker Meeting House and may cont..
Quaker Oats Company
The official logo for Quaker Oats. Quaker Oats Company makes many types and flavors of oatmeal. The Quaker Oats Company is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago founded in 1901 by the merger of three separate companies and American pioneers, all of whom sold products made of oa..
Quaker Peace and Social Witness
Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the British Friends Service Council, are an organisation of Quakers based in Britain that work to promote and put into practice the Quaker testimonies of equality, integrity, simplicity and peace. They work alongside both small local and la..
Quaker State
Quaker State is brand of a motor oil made by SOPUS Products, a division of Royal Dutch Shell (RD), and the successor of the Pennzoil-Quaker State Company. Quaker State is a nickname for Pennsylvania, the state founded by William Penn, a Quaker. External links [Quaker State website] ..
Quaker Steak and Lube
Quaker Steak and Lube is a small, growing casual restaurant dining chain based in Sharon, Pennsylvania. The original restaurant was built in 1972 on the site of an abandoned gas station in downtown Sharon, and decorated with license plates and unused automobiles. Quaker Steak's flagship food product..
Quaker Steak and Lube 200
The Quaker Steak and Lube 200 is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race that takes place at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Past Winners: 2006 Kyle Busch2005 Kyle Busch2004 Dennis Setzer2003 Ted Musgrave Previous race: Missouri/Illinois Dodge Dealers Ram Tough 200 Current NASCAR Races Next race: City..
Quaker Tapestry
The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of Quakerism from the 17th century up to the present day. The idea of Quaker Anne Wynn-Wilson, the tapestry has a permanent home at the Friends Meeting House at Kendal, Cumbria, England. The design was heavily influenced by the Baye..
Quaker Valley High School
Quaker Valley High School is a high school located in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania. See also List of high schools in PennsylvaniaQuaker Valley School District External links [Quaker Valley High School] - school website[Quaker Valley School District] - school district website ..
Quaker views of homosexuality
Homosexuality and Christianity Anglican views of homosexuality Eastern Orthodox view of sin Quaker views of homosexuality Full list The views of Quakers toward homosexuality has a dramatic range from complete acceptance and celebration of same-sex marriages, to viewing homosexuality as abhorre..
Quaker views of women
Quaker views toward women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement. The early history of attitudes towards gender in t..
Quaker wedding
Quaker weddings are the traditional ceremony of marriage within the Religious Society of Friends. Quaker wedding process Traditionally in a Friends Meeting when a couple decides to get married they declare their intentions to marry to the meeting (either in writing or in person). The meeting then ..
QuakeSat
Quakesat Organization [Quakefinder LLC] Contractor Stanford University Mission Type earth observation Satellite of Earth Launch June 30, 2003 on Rockot Launch site Plesetsk Cosmodrome Mission duration 24 months Mass 5 kg Webpage [quakefinder.com/fppt..
QuakeWorld
QuakeWorld logo. QuakeWorld is an update to id Software's Quake, that enhances the game's multiplayer features (namely TCP/IP support) to allow people with dial-up modems to achieve greatly improved responsiveness when playing on Internet game servers. Modern broadband connections such as ca..
Quake (disambiguation)
Quake is the first game in a series of computer and video games known as the Quake series. Quake could also refer to: Quake series, the series of computer/video games.Earthquake, sometimes abbreviated as quake.Along with Quisp, one of a pair of Quaker Oats sweetened cereals advertised together in t..
Quake (Transformers)
Quake is the name of a Transformers character. Contents 1 Targetmaster Quake2 Marvel Comics3 \"Wreckers\" BotCon comic4 External Links Targetmaster Quake The first Quake figure was a Decepticon Targetmaster with two transforming weapon-partners: Tiptop and Heater. His T..
Quake 2 vortex
Contents 1 What is the Vortex?2 The Vortex Team, past and present3 Features of the Vortex4 Early Vortex History5 Fixing the bugs in the code6 Major revision to present What is the Vortex? Vortex is a Quake 2 modification that adds RPG-like elements to the game..
Quake 4
Quake 4 is the fourth title in the series of Quake FPS computer games. It was developed by Raven Software and distributed by Activision. Raven Software has collaborated with id Software, the creators and usual developers of Quake games in the past. This game, id Software supervised the development ..
Quake and Kaik
Quake and Kaik (in Spanish: Quake y Kaik) was a television comedy show produced by the mexican Iván Guzmán and the colombian Carlos Méndez-Chávez (brother of Aura). Made in Mexico and with a cast of different regions of Latin America. Consists of two seasons, the first season done since ends of ..
Quake Army Knife
QuArK (aka Quake Army Knife), is a free toolkit and environment for developing 3D computer game levels for a large variety of popular games, mostly first-person shooters. Along with support for most games based on engines developed by id Software (Quake, HeXen II, Quake II, Heretic 2, SiN, [[Kingpi..
Quake done Quick
Quake done Quick is a series of machinima and speedrun movies in which Quake, its mission packs, and a few of its related games, are completed as fast as possible, utilizing any shortcut or trick (except cheats) necessary. These movies are available in the game engine's native demo format and in r..
Quake engine
The Quake engine is the game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake, written by id Software. It introduced true 3D realtime rendering and is now licensed under the GPL. After release it immediately forked, as did the level design. Much of the engine remained in Quake II and Quake III Arena..
Quake II
Quake II, released on December 6 1997, is a first person shooter game developed by id Software and distributed by Activision. It is not a sequel to Quake; it merely uses the name of the former game for commercial purposes. The soundtrack was provided by Sonic Mayhem, with some additional tracks by ..
Quake II: Lost Marine
Quake II: Lost Marine is a total conversion mod for DOOM 3, that reinvents the style and gameplay of Quake 2 in a newer engine. The game offers somewhat more control to the player, allowing multiple ways of achieving objectives. In an interview with GameSpy 2003, in which John Carmack announced his..
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena or Quake 3, abbreviated as Q3A or Q3, is a multiplayer first-person shooter released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly. Quake III Arena is the third title in the series and differs from the..
Quake III engine
The Quake III engine was developed by id Software and is used in many games. The first game that used the engine was Quake III Arena, released in 1999. In its heyday, it competed with the Unreal engine, although both engines were widely licensed. The Quake III engine is a substantial improvement fr..
Quake III Maps
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Quake II CTF
Quake II Capture The Flag (CTF) is a modification for Quake II. First official CTF mod for Quake II was released from Threewave Software Inc. It was created by Dave "Zoid" Kirsch of Threewave Software. Before its publication, a makeshift CTF mod was released as server-side mod by Loki's Minions. ..
Quake II engine
The Quake II engine is a game engine developed by id Software for use in their games, most notably Quake II. Since its release, the Quake II engine has been licensed for use in several other games. One of the engine's most notable features was out-of-the-box support for hardware-accelerated graphic..
Quake II Evolved
For an overview of the Quake game franchise, go to Quake series. Quake II Evolved is a modification of the open-source Quake II engine, originally created by id Software. The current version contains vastly improved graphics over the original game, an improved HUD, better support for modern hardwa..
Quake II WoD
Weapons Of Destruction, Better known now as WoD, is a Quake II modification. It has changed weapons around very much, added new alternates and so on. As they state, "All the standard weapons of Quake 2 have been enhanced with an alternate fire mode for each weapon. For example, no longer will you ..
Quake Lake
Quake Lake (also known as Earthquake Lake) was created after a massive earthquake struck southwestern Montana, United States on August 17, 1959. The earthquake measured 7.5 on the Richter scale and caused an 80 million ton landslide which damned the Madison River. The landslide roared down the sou..
Quake Mission Pack: Scourge of Armagon
Quake Mission Pack #1: Scourge of Armagon is the first official mission pack for id Software's first person shooter, Quake. Developed by Hipnotic Interactive, later renamed Ritual Entertainment, Scourge featured 15 new single player missions, a new multiplayer arena, as well as three new enemies, w..
Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution Of Eternity
Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity is the second official mission pack for id Software's first person shooter, Quake. Developed by Rogue Entertainment, Dissolution of Eternity featured 16 new single player levels, as well as new enemies, weapons and power-ups. Armaments such as the gra..
Quake series
The Quake series is a line of first person shooter computer and video games produced by id Software. Contents 1 Overview2 Games2.1 Quake2.2 Quake II2.3 Quake III Arena2.4 Quake 42.5 Quake Mobile2.6 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars3 External links Overview ..
Quaking Houses
Quaking Houses is a small village near to the town of Stanley in County Durham, in England. It was originally settled by Quakers, but during the Industrial Revolution it developed into a mining village and to this day consists of back-to-back miners' houses. Quaking Houses, from Langley View, so..
Qualcomm
Qualcomm (NASDAQ: [QCOM]) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi, who previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. Qua..
Qualcomm Stadium
Qualcomm Stadium (a.k.a. "The Q"), formerly known as San Diego Stadium and Jack Murphy Stadium, is a multiple-use stadium in San Diego, California. It is the current home of the San Diego Chargers of the NFL, the San Diego State University Aztecs college football team and hosts the Pacific Life Hol..
Qualdir
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QualEx Systems
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. QualEx Systems is one of the..
Qualia
This article is about the philosophical concept. For the electronics brand, see Qualia (Sony) "Redness" is the canonical quale. Qualia (from the Latin, meaning "what sort" or "what kind"; Latin and English singular "quale" (IPA: [ˈkwɑːle])) are most simply defined as qualities or ..
Qualia (Sony)
Qualia is a boutique brand of high-end electronics, created by Sony to showcase their best technology. Some Qualia products are brand new while others are upgraded and rebranded versions of regular Sony products. The line was launched in Japan in June 2003 and the U.S. in April 2004. In 2005, Sony d..
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
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Qualicum Beach Airport
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Qualification
The term qualification may refer to: Professional certification (also called simply qualification)Product certification (also called product qualification)A process of deciding the running order in many racing events, and other sport. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list ..
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom. In England QCA maintains and develops the national curriculum and associated assessments, tests and examinations; and accredits and monitors qualifi..
Qualification problem
In philosophy and AI, the qualification problem is concerned with the impossibility of listing all the preconditions required for a real-world action to have its intended effect. It might be posed as how to deal with the things that prevent me from achieving my intended result. It is strongly connec..
Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor
Contents 1 Background2 QDII in China3 See also4 External links Background Also known as QDII, it is a scheme setup within a country/territory that has been approved by the relevant regulatory authorities of the country/territory to facilitate investments in offshore markets s..
Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors
Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors(abbreviated as 'QDII') is a scheme relating to the capital market in which financial institutions in a country with foreign exchange control (such as in Mainland China) with foreign exchange are allowed to invest in capital markets outside that country unde..
Qualified domestic relations order
A Qualified domestic relations order or QDRO is a legal order subsequent to a divorce that splits and changes ownership of a retirement plan to give the divorced spouse their share of the asset or pension plan. QDROs may grant ownership in the participant's (employee's) pension plan to an alternate..
Qualified immunity
Quality of Immunity Government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. Harlow v. Fitzgerald..
Qualified Institutional Buyer
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a [WikiProject Countering systemic biasworldwide view].Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. A Qualified Institutional Buyer in law is a purchaser of securities that is fina..
Qualified intermediary
The Qualified Intermediary (also known as an Accommodator) should be a corporation that is in the full-time business of facilitating 1031 exchanges. The role of a QI is similar to, but not identical to, the role of an escrow company. Anyone who is related to the taxpayer, or who has had a financia..
Qualified majority voting
Voting weights since November 1st 2004: CountryVotesPop.(mill.) Germany2982.0 UK2959.4 France2959.1 Italy2957.7 Spain2739.4 Poland2738.6 Netherlands1315.8 Greece1210.6 Czech R.1210.3 Belgium1210.2 Hungary1210.0 Portugal129.9 Sweden108.9 Austria108.1 Slovakia75.4 Denmark75.3 Finland75.2 Lithuania73..
Qualified Person
Qualified Person (QP) is a technical term used in European Union pharmaceutical regulation. The regulations specify that no batch of medicinal product can be released for sale or supply prior to certification by a QP that the batch is in accordance with the relevant requirements.[link] Th..
Qualified prospect
In the Sales Process, a qualified prospect is a potential buyer that shows interest, has the budget and authority to buy, the desire to move forward in the sales process, and time available to implement the solution. A Qualified Prospect is different from a sales lead because a lead is just a "name..
Qualified Teacher Status
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is required in England and Wales to become, and continue being, a teacher in the state and special education sectors. Similar statuses exist in the rest of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Northern Ireland), but under different names. Contents 1 Gaining QTS2&nb..
Qualifier 105
[Qualifier 105] is one of the oldest members of the long range sportfishing fleet based in San Diego, California. This vessel is known for its unusually high stability and its low freeboard. Year Built: 1970Length Overall: 105 feetBeam: 30 feetPassenger Capacity: 32 passengers in 32 bunks..
Qualifying school
Contents 1 Specific qualifying schools1.1 PGA TOUR1.2 European Tour2 Further reading In professonal golf the term Qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S. based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed..
Qualimetry
Qualimetry - a scientific theory of the quantitative determination of quality developed in the former USSR by G.G.Azgal'dov and currently used in development of Russian standards (GOST), psychology etc. ..
Qualitative
"Qualitative" is an important qualifier in the following subject titles: Qualitative marketing researchQualitative research This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link..
Qualitative and quantitative
Qualitative comparison, in chemistry, is comparing different substances' characteristics and attributes. Quantitative comparison, in chemistry, is comparing different substances' numerical amounts and quantities (hence the name). Quantitave observations are how big is it how much does it weigh,etc...
Qualitative inorganic analysis
Classical qualitative inorganic analysis is a method of analytical chemistry which seeks to find elemental composition of inorganic compounds. It is mainly focused on detecting ions in an aqueous solution, so that materials in other forms may need to be brought into this state before using standard ..
Qualitative invisibility
In CAD/CAM, Qualitative Invisibility (QI) is the number of solid bodies obscuring a point in space as projected onto a plane (called [vector] hidden line removal used by the Vector format). Oftentimes, when a CAD engineer creates a projection of his model into a plane [the drawing ..
Qualitative marketing research
Qualitative research is a set of research techniques, used in marketing and the social sciences, in which data are obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with statistical techniques. This differentiates it from quantitative research in which a large group of responden..
Qualitative properties
Qualitative properties are properties that are observed and can generally not be measured. It should be mentioned that qualitative properties are most of the time at least as important as quantitative properties. Qualitative factors are also sometimes referred to as: 'untouchable' factors. However,..
Qualitative psychological research
In the broadest sense qualitative research uses only dichotomous data — that is, data which can take only the values 0 (zero) and 1 (one). In psychological research this definition has been restricted further. In psychology qualitative research has come to be defined as research whose findings..
Qualitative research
Qualitative research is one of the two major approaches to research methodology in social science. Qualitative research involves investigating participants' opinions, behaviors and experiences from the informants' points of view. It is contrasted with quantitative research in that it does not rely o..
Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete
Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete, more commonly abbreviated to QbA, is a category in the German wine classification, reserved for riper grapes than Deutscher Tafelwein and Deutscher Landwein but lower quality than Prädikat wines. The grapes may be chaptalized (have sugar added to increase fin..
Qualitätswein mit Prädikat
Qualitätswein mit Prädikat usually abbreviated to QmP is the level in the German wine classification to which almost all quality German wines belong. The wines must be produced from recognised grape varieties grown within one district, which must be declared on the label, and the grapes must reach..
Qualiton Records
Qualiton Records was a small company which produced shellac and vinyl gramophone records in the 1950s near Neath, South Wales. See also List of record labels ..
Quality
Quality refers to the distinctive characteristics or properties of a person, object, process or other thing. Such characteristics may enhance a subject's distinctiveness, or may denote some degree of achievement or excellence. When used in relation to people, the term may also signify a personal ch..
Quality, Cost, Delivery
QCD - a three letter acronym used in lean manufacturing and standing for quality, cost, and delivery. ..
Quality-adjusted life years
Quality-adjusted life years, or QALYs, are a measure of the benefit of a medical intervention. It is based on the number of years of life that would be added by the intervention. Each year in perfect health is assigned the value of 1.0 down to a value of 0 for death. If the extra years would not b..
Qualitynet
Qualitynet is a Internet service provider operating in Kuwait. It was established in 1998 after the Ministry of Communication allowed private data communicaion services throughout Kuwait. Qualitynet achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification and is the first company in Kuwait to be awarded with this recog..
Quality (album)
Quality is rapper Talib Kweli's second album. It was released on December 16th, 2002 under Rawkus Records. Track listing "Keynote Speaker" (Performed by Dave Chappelle)"Rush" (featuring Xzibit) (Produced by Megahertz)"Get By" (Produced by Kanye West, contains sample of Nina Simone's "Sinnerman")"..
Quality and Outcomes Framework
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system for payment of GPs in the UK National Health Service. It was introduced as part of the new General medical services (GMS) NHS contract in April 2004. It is supported by an IT system called QMAS. The QOF rewards GPs for implementing good practice ..
Quality assessment
Quality assessment includes evaluation, grading and measurement process to assess design, development, production, installation, servicing and documentation, includes the regulation of the quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and components. ..
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance (or QA) covers all activities from design, development, production, installation, servicing and documentation. It introduced the sayings "fit for purpose" and "do it right the first time". It includes the regulation of the quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and componen..
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) was established in 1997 to provide an integrated quality assurance service for United Kingdom higher education. The creation of QAA was a culmination of a decade's worth of reform in the quality assurance of UK higher education. Eventually it ..
Quality Assurance International
Quality Assurance International (QAI) is a U.S.-based international organic certification company. It is a for-profit corporation, established in 1989, and headquartered in San Diego, California. It is one of world's largest certifiers, operating in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Japan. QAI off..
Quality Assurance in Public Transport
A quality assurance system comprises assessment and remediation action in a closed circle. Quality Assessment in Public Transport may be organised in various forms: user panelquality testerfeedback formscomplaint handling A user panel is organised by the transport operator searching for improvements..
Quality audit
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Quality audit means a systematic, independent examination of a quality system. Quality audits are typically performed at defined intervals and ensures that the institution has clearly-defined internal quality monitoring procedures linked to effective action. The c..
Quality Bakers
Quality Bakers is an Australian and New Zealand brand of bread products. Quailty Bakers forms part of the Goodman Fielder food company and has bakeries throughout Australia and New Zealand. The products are marketed under these brands: In Australia:- HelgasSunicrustMighty SoftButtercupMighty SoftWo..
Quality bias
Quality bias occurs when improvements in the quality of a product do not result in an increased price. An example would be enhanced performance of personal computers. Generally speaking, greater and greater speeds and features have become available, without substantial increase in price. Quality..
Quality Bus Corridor
Quality Bus Corridors (QBC) are an initiative to give dedicated road space and traffic signal priority to buses in Dublin in order to reduce journey times and improve service consistency. The aim of the initiative is to encourage people to change from cars to buses and thus reduce traffic congestio..
Quality circle
A quality circle is a volunteer group composed of workers who meet together to discuss workplace improvement, and make presentations to management with their ideas. Typical topics are improving safety, improving product design, and improvement in manufacturing process. Quality circles have the advan..
Quality Comics
Crack Comics #1 (May 1940), featured The Clock, introduced in 1936 as the first masked crime-fighter in American comic books. Blackhawk #12 (Autumn 1946) Hit Comics #1 (July 1940), the first appearance of the Red Bee. Plastic Man #17 (May 1949), cover art by Jack Cole. Dol..
Quality Communications
Quality Communications is the company formed by Dez Skinn in 1982 to publish Warrior, an anthology comic book title. It has been involved with comics since then on both the UK and the U.S, mainly with reprint material from Warrior and repackaging 2000 AD material for the U.S market. Though they wer..
Quality competition in retailing
Quality competition in retailing In many retail industries, the most successful firms are the ones that offer the widest selection. For example, Wal-Mart rose to the top of the Fortune 500 by offering consumers a vast array of products at very competitive prices. The emphasis on product variety is..
Quality control
For other uses of this term, please see Quality Control (disambiguation). In engineering and manufacturing, quality control and quality engineering are involved in developing systems which ensure that products or services are designed and produced to meet or exceed customer requirements and expecta..
Quality Control (album)
Quality Control is the second album from the alternative hip hop group Jurassic 5, and their first on a major label. Track list "How We Get Along""The Influence""Great Expectations""Quality Intro""Quality Control""Contact""Lausd""World Of Entertainment (W.O.E. Is Me)""Monkey Bars""Jurass Finish Fi..
Quality control (disambiguation)
Quality control may be: Quality control, a process for maintaining proper standards in manufacturing.Quality Control (album), the Jurassic 5 musical collective's sophomore album (released in the year 2000.) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with ..
Quality Food
Quality Food Centers (QFC) is a supermarket chain based in Bellevue, Washington, with over 80 stores in the Puget Sound region of Washington state and in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Founded in Bellevue in 1956 by Jack Croco, it was purchased by Portland-based Fred Meyer in 1997. Fred..
Quality function deployment
QFD House of Quality for Enterprise Product Development Processes Quality function deployment or "QFD" is a flexible and comprehensive group decision making technique used in product or service development, brand marketing, and product management. QFD can strongly help an organization focus o..
Quality group
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Quality Hill
Quality Hill is an historic and highly upscale registered neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It is located on the west side of downtown, between Broadway and I-35 to the east and west, and between 7th Street and 14th Street to the north and south. The Kansas border is half a mile ..
Quality improvement organizations
Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) monitor the appropriateness, effectiveness, and quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. They are private contractor extensions of the federal government that work under the auspices of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). ..
Quality management
Quality management is a method for ensuring that all the activities necessary to design, develop and implement a product or service are effective and efficient with respect to the system and its performance. Quality Improvement W. Edwards Deming is best known for his management philosophy establis..
Quality management system
A quality management system (QMS) is a system that outlines the policies and procedures necessary to improve and control the various processes that will ultimately lead to improved business performance. One of their purposes is quality control in manufacturing. Although it may seem obvious that qua..
Quality of experience
Quality of Experience (QoE), In business terminology QoE is also known as "Quality of User Experience," and is a subjective measure of a customer's experiences with a vendor. It looks at a vendor's or purveyor's offering from the standpoint of the customer or end user, and asks, "What mix of goods, ..
Quality of information
THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION Contents 1 The information2 The quality of information3 Truthness4 Importance5 Comprehensibility The information The quality of information There are three determinant factors for the quality of information: Truthness The source of informatio..
Quality of life
The well-being or quality of life of a population is an important concern in economics and political science. There are many components to well-being. A large part is standard of living, the amount of money and access to goods and services that a person has; these numbers are fairly easily measu..
Quality of Life
Also see The Quality of Life and quality of life. Quality of Life (2004) is a narrative feature film, telling the fictional story of two graffiti writers in the Mission District of San Francisco. Directed by Benjamin Morgan, Quality of Life stars Lane Garrison, Brian Burnam, Luis Saguar and Macke..
Quality of life (disambiguation)
The Quality of Life may mean Quality of life, a measure of the wellbeing of a population.The Quality of Life (TNG episode), a sixth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe Quality of Life, an episode of the TV series Yes, MinisterQuality of Life, a 2004 narrative film feature about two ..
Quality of Mercy (episode)
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Quality of models
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Quality of results
Quality of Results (QoR) is a term used in evaluating technological processes. It is generally represented as a vector of components, with the special case of uni-dimensional value as a synthetic measure. History The term was coined by the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry in the late 198..
Quality of service
In the fields of packet-switched networks and computer networking, the traffic engineering term Quality of Service (QoS) refers to the probability of the telecommunication network meeting a given traffic contract, or in many cases is used informally to refer to the probability of a packet succeeding..
Quality Practice Award
The Quality Practice Award (QPA) is an award that is given to GP Practices in the UK to show recognition for high quality patient care by all members of staff in the team. It is awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). For the practice to achieve the award, evidence has to be p..
Quality Protein Maize
Quality Protein Maize (QPM) contains nearly twice as much usable protein as other maize (or corn) grown in the tropics and yields 10% more grain than traditional varieties of maize. It was developed by Dr. Surinder Vasal and Dr. Evangelina Villegas at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Ce..
Quality Science Education for All
Quality Science Education for All (QSEA) is a non-profit creationist foundation focused on challenging evolution as taught in public schools. Part of the intelligent design movement, QSEA has been involved in legal disputes over science textbooks used in classrooms in several states, including Minn..
Quality Soft Core
Quality Soft Core is the first full-length release from The Mad Caddies. Track Listing "I'm So Alone" - 4:09"Distress" - 3:49"Cup O' Tea" - 1:44"The Bell Tower" - 2:42"No Se" - 2:41"Crew Cut Chuck" - 1:56"Goleta" - 1:24"Big Brother" - 3:25"LG's" - 3:20"Polyester Khakis" - 2:20"Preppie Girl" - 2:3..
Quality Standards Illustrated
The 8th edition of the Quality Standards (published by the Architectural Woodwork Institute) is a major revision in a line of Standards extending back to 1961 when the earliest version was developed. One of the wonderful things about this Standard is that it is a Voluntary Standard, not legislated ..
Quality start
A Quality Start is a relatively new baseball statistic developed by John Lowe. It attempts to gauge the number of "good" starts that a pitcher has. A start is determined to be a quality start if the pitcher pitches at least six innings and allows no more than three earned runs. The development of t..
Quality starts
A statistic credited to a starting pitcher who allows three runs or less and pitches six innings or more. ..
Quality storyboard
A Quality storyboard is a visual method for displaying a Quality Control story (QC story). Some enterprises have developed a storyboard format for telling the QC story, for example at Yokagawa-Hewlett-Packard in Japan, the story is told using a flip chart which is 6 feet by 6 feet (2 x 2 meters). Th..
Quality Street
Quality Street can refer to: Quality Street (play), a play by J. M. BarrieQuality Street (film), a 1937 film based on the playNestlé Quality Street (confection), a selection of chocolates manufactured by Nestlé and named for the playThe Quality Street gang, a gang perpetrating much of the organis..
Quality Street gang
The Quality Street gang were a gang, the principal perpetrators of organised crime in Manchester, England during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police John Stalker was suspended over accusations that, amongst other things, he had attended social event..
Quality Superstars
The Quality Superstars are a Grand Bahama Football League team. ..
Quality TeleVision
Quality TeleVision (QTV) is the VHF Television network owned by ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. of Bro. Eddie Villanueva and currently operated by GMA Network, Inc.. The station was formally known as ZOE-TV 11. It was renamed QTV-11 after GMA Network, Inc. and ZOE-TV entered to an agreement for le..
Quality time
Quality time is time which is used intensively. The term is used with the connotation that the amount of time is limited, but that this is compensated by more intense use of it. The term is used in particular for spending time with the people one loves and respects, especially with those towards wh..
Quality without a name
The quality without a name (QWAN) is a phrase used by Christopher Alexander in his book The Timeless Way of Building. In the book, Alexander describes a certain quality which we should seek, but which is unnamed: "There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man..
Qualla Boundary
left The Qualla Boundary is essentially the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. While not technically a reservation—rather, a "land trust"—the Qualla Boundary is a Cherokee-controlled area. The town of Cherokee is the center of the area. Some roads..
Qualopec
A fictional leader from the video game Tomb Raider, Qualopec was one of 3 leaders of the ancient city Atlantis. He was aided by Tihocan and Natla. The 3 leaders created the Atlantean Scion, a device of great power. Qualopec was apparently injured or disfigured for, like Tihocan, his face and perha..
Quamash
Quamash, also known as Small camas, is a perennial herb of the family Agavaceae. It is one species of the genus Camassia with eight subspecies and occurs in large areas of Southern Canada and the Northwestern United States. The pale-blue to deep-blue flowers grow in a raceme at the end of the ste..
Quamba, Minnesota
Quamba is a city in Kanabec County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 98 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were 98 people, 33 households, ..
Quamby Bluff Forest Reserve
Quamby Bluff Forest Reserve is a forest reserve situated in northern Tasmania, Australia. It can be found 20 minutes drive from the small town of Deloraine on the Lake Highway. Quamby Bluff is the mountain that is situated within this reserve. The walk to the summit of Quamby Bluff is a popular d..
Quamichan
Quamichan is a traditional village of the Cowichan Indians, or First Nations, of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, in the area of the city of Duncan, British Columbia. In 1909, there were reported to be 260 people living in the village. ..
Quamichan Lake (Raven Field) Airport
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Quammruddin Nagar
Quammruddin Nagar is a census town in West district in the Indian state of Delhi. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Quammruddin Nagar had a population of 10,240. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Quammruddin Nagar has an avera..
Quamrul Hassan
Quamrul Hassan (Bangla: কামরুল হাসান) (1921-1988) was a Bangladeshi artist. Hassan was born in Kolkata, India. In Bangladesh, Hassan's fame as an artist is perhaps only second to that of Zainul Abedin. Hassan is often referred to in Bangladesh as Potua, a word usually associate..
Quamzin Kravshera
In the fictional Macross universe, Quamzin Kravshera or Kamjin/Kamujin (known as Khyron in the Robotech universe) is a brilliant but mentally unstable Zentradi commander during Space War I. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. History He is known as Qu..
Quam singulari
Quam singulari was a decree released by Pope Pius X in 1910, concerning the admittance of Communion to children. There was a concern in the church about the practice of operating with different ages for admitting first Communion and first Confession. Some argued that, while reaching the age of rea..
Quanah
Quanah may refer to: Quanah Parker (1840s-1911), Native American leaderQuanah, TexasQuanah Crossland Stamps, Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to thi..
Quanah, Texas
Quanah is a city in Hardeman County, Texas, 192 miles (309 km) northwest of Fort Worth, Tx. In 1900, 1,651 people lived in Quanah, Texas; and in 1910, 3,127 lived here. The population was 3,022 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hardeman County[Geographic references#6GR6]. It is ..
Quanah Crossland Stamps
Quanah Crossland Stamps (born Quanah LeeAnn Crossland on June 11, 1963) is the US Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans (ANA), a program office within the Department of Health and Human Services. Stamps, a Republican and member of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was no..
Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann Parker, and the last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians. Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, was a member of the large ..
Quandary Peak
Quandary Peak is the largest peak in the Tenmile Range with an elevation of 14,265 feet. It is also the 13th or 14th highest peak in Colorado, depending on how it is ranked. It has nearly the exact elevation of Castle Peak in the Elk Range to the west. Quandary Peak is a popular fourteener to..
Quandong
Quandong (alternative spelling Quongdong, also called wild peach or desert peach) is the name given to three kinds of Australian wild bush plants (or bushtucker), of which two belong to the sandalwood genus (Santalum): Desert quandong, sweet quandong, or native peach (Santalum acuminatum). Is wide..
Quando Quango
Quando Quango was a Manchester, England based new wave dance project formed by The Haçienda DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld and Reinier Rietveld. Their unique sound influenced the underground dance music scenes in New York and Chicago in the 1980s. [link�..
Quand je te rêve
"Quand je te rêve" was Luxembourgs entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1990. It was performed by the French singer Celine Carzo and finished 13th with 38 points. ..
Quand On n'a Que l'Amour
Contents 1 Alternative album titles2 Track listing3 Personnel4 External links Alternative album titles Jacques Brel's recordings have been released in many different permutations, in different countries, and on different formats. Furthermore, releases of Brel's recordings are..
Quand Tu Reviendras
Quand Tu Reviendras (English translation: "When Will You Come Back", sometimes attested ungrammatically as "When You Will Come Back") was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, performed in French by Claude Lombard. The song was performed third on the night (following the Netherlands..
Quango
The acronyms Qango and Quango, variously spelt out as QUAsi Non Governmental Organisation, Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation, and Quasi-Autonomous National Government Organisation have been used, notably in the United Kingdom, but also in Australia and other countries, to describe a ra..
Quang Binh Province
Quang Binh (in Vietnamese Quảng Bình) is a province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam. External links [Quang Binh province People's Committee]   Vietnam ..
Quang Nam Province
Quang Nam (Vietnamese Quảng Nam) is a province in central Vietnam. Contents 1 Economy2 Places of interest3 Administration4 External links Economy Quang Nam is famous for its production of Saigon Cinnamon. Places of interest The province has two UNESCO World Heritage Site..
Quang Ngai Province
--> Quang Ngai (Vietnamese Quảng Ngãi) is a province in south-central Vietnam, on the coast of South China Sea. It is located 883 km south of Hà Nội and 838 km north of Hồ Chí Minh City. Administration The province consists of 1 municipality and 13 districts: Quảng Ngãi (municipalit..
Quang Ninh Province
Quảng Ninh is a large province located along the northeastern border of Vietnam. Contents 1 Geography2 Topography3 Hydrography4 Water and Mineral Water5 ..
Quang Tri Province
Quang Tri (in Vietnamese Quảng Trị) is a province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, next to the former capital of Huế. Its capital is the town of Quang Tri. The most notable achievement of the North Vietnamese offensive in 1972 was capturing Quang Tri.   Vietnam ..
Quang X. Pham
Quang X. Pham Quang X. Pham a Vietnamese-American was born in 1965, in Saigon, South Vietnam. Biography During the invasion of South Vietnam by the Communist North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong Agents, Quang, his sisters, and his mother left their beloved nation, while the Army of the R..
Quanjude
Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant (全聚德) is a famous Chinese restaurant in Beijing known for its Peking Duck. It opened in 1864, and the current restaurant opened in 1979. Since then, it has already served millions of ducks to thousands of customers daily. It also serves duck bone soup, appetizers..
Quannum Projects
Quannum Projects (aka Quannum MCs) is a hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been active since 1992, when it was formed at UC Davis under the moniker Solesides Records. It is also the name of the independent record label that releases their records, as well as those of a n..
Quant
Quant can refer to: English designer Mary QuantA pole used to propel a barge or punt; see quant pole.A person who works in quantitative analysis; see quantitative analyst. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred yo..
Quantale
In mathematics, quantales are certain partially ordered algebraic structures which generalize frames (pointless topologies) as well as various lattices of multiplicative ideals from ring theory and functional analysis (C*-algebras, von Neumann algebras). A quantale is a complete lattice Q with an ..
QUANTA (competition)
QUANTA is an international competition for Science, Mathematics, Astronomy and Computer Science. The competition was organized in 1995, as a national event in India. The initial success and popularity of the competition induced QUANTA to be organized as an international competition from the year ..
Quanta Computers
Quanta Computer Incorporated is a large Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Dell Computer, Compaq, Gateway Computers, Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sony, Sharp Corporation, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Siemens AG. It was founded by Ba..
Quanta Cura
Quanta Cura was a Papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1864, which condemned several propositions relating to religious freedom, freedom of speech, and the separation of church and state. There was an earlier encyclical of the same title, issued in 1741 by Pope Benedict XIV, forbi..
Quanta Display Inc.
Quanta Display Inc.is a taiwanese company established in 1999, manufacturing thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels. It has been acquired for 2.2 billion USD in stock shares by the bigger LCD manufacturer AU Optronics for its 4% market share the 7 April 2006. [qdi.com.tw&..
Quanta Plus
In computing, Quanta Plus is a free web development environment for KDE. Quanta is capable of both WYSIWYG design and handcoding. It's currently released as part of KDE in the kdewebdev package. Features Uses KDE KIO slaves for FTP, SSH (through FISH) and other protocol support.Builtin rendering ..
Quantel
Quantel is a corporation based in the United Kingdom, and founded in 1973, that designs and manufactures digital production equipment for the broadcast television, video production, and motion picture industries. They are headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire. The name Quantel comes from Quantised T..
Quantel Mirage
The Quantel Mirage, or DVM8000/1 "Digital Video Manipulator", was a digital real-time video effects processor introduced by Quantel in 1982. It was capable of warping a live video stream by texture mapping it onto an arbitrary three-dimensional shape, around which the viewer could freely rotate or z..
Quantel Paintbox
The Quantel Paintbox is a dedicated computer system for performing real time manipulation of video, and creating graphics. Following its initial launch in 1981, it revolutionised the production of television graphics, and is still in widespread use today. Its capabilities have kept pace with the sta..
Quantex
Quantex Microsystems was a direct-PC manufacturer based in Somerset, New Jersey founded in 1984. Although it never matched the sales volumes of the largest PC retailers, their products met wide acceptance by customers. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 17, 2000 when its ke..
Quantic
Quantic may refer to: Quantic is another name for the mathematical concept of algebraic forms.Quantic is one of the stage names of musician Will Holland.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you..
Quantico
Quantico may refer to one of the following: Quantico, Virginia - a town.Marine Corps Base Quantico - US Marine Corps BaseFBI Academy - an FBI training facility located in Quantico, often referred to as Quantico This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated wi..
Quantico, Virginia
Quantico, Virginia is in Prince William County, 23 miles north-northeast of Fredericksburg, Virginia, near Dumfries and Stafford along Highway 619. It is totally surrounded by Marine Corps Base Quantico and the Potomac River. It is located south of the mouth of Quantico Creek on the Potomac. As of t..
Quantico Creek
Quantico Creek is a tidal tributary of the Potomac River located in eastern Prince William County, Virginia. Quantico Creek's source lies southeast of Independent Hill and empties into the Potomac at Possum Point. The creek flows through Prince William Forest Park. Contents 1 History2 C..
Quantico National Cemetery
American flags decorate the headstones of service members at the Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Virginia Quantico National Cemetery is located on land that was part of the U.S. Marine Corps training base adjacent to Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia. The land has been used b..
Quantico Station, Virginia
Quantico Station is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 6,571 at the 2000 census. It is important to note that the designation Quantico Station is not in widespread local use. The residents are actually the military families who res..
Quantic Dream
Quantic Dream (founded 1997) is a French video game developer based in Paris, France, who also supply motion capture services to the film and video game industries. They launched their first title, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, in 1999 for PC and Dreamcast, which also featured original music and acts b..
Quantification
In language and logic, quantification is a construct that specifies the extent of validity of a predicate, that is the extent to which a predicate holds over a range of things. A language element which generates a quantification is called a quantifier. The resulting statement is a quantified state..
Quantified boolean formula problem
In computational complexity theory, the quantified boolean formula problem (QBF) is a generalization of the boolean satisfiability problem in which both existential quantifiers and universal quantifiers can be applied to each variable. Put another way, it asks whether a first-order logic sentential ..
Quantifier elimination
Quantifier elimination is a technique in logic, model theory, and theoretical computer science. We say that a given theory has quantifier elimination if for every sentence with quantification there exists an equivalent (modulo the theory) sentence without quantifiers. In model theory, quantifier el..
Quantile
Quantiles are essentially points taken at regular intervals from the cumulative distribution function of a random variable. Dividing ordered data into q essentially equal-sized data subsets is the motivation for q-quantiles; the quantiles are the data values marking the boundaries between consecuti..
Quantitative
A scale for measuring mass A quantitative property is one that exists in a range of magnitudes, and can therefore be measured. Measurements of any particular quantitative property are expressed as a specific quantity, referred to as a unit, multiplied by a number. Examples of physical quantiti..
Quantitative analysis
Quantitative analysis has different meanings in different contexts. In most contexts it is contrasted with an alternative approach that is known as qualitative analysis. In social science, quantitative analysis refers to the use of numerical and statistical techniques rather than the analysis of v..
Quantitative analysis (chemistry)
Quantitative analysis in chemistry is the determination of the absolute or relative abundance of one or several particular substance(s) present in a sample. Once the presence of certain substance(s) in a sample is ascertained, the study of their absolute or relative abundance can help in determinin..
Quantitative Analysis Software (Finance)
Quantitative Analysis Software is a relatively new method of investing which uses computerized artificial intelligence techniques to make decisions on the buying or selling of stocks, Bonds, or other financial assets. Usually managers monitor the software's decisions and can decide to override it. ..
Quantitative analyst
A quantitative analyst is a person who works in the financial markets developing mathematical models to assist the activities of traders and risk managers within banks and other large corporate institutions. Throughout the industry, such professionals are known as quants. Historically quants often ..
Quantitative feedback theory
Quantitative feedback theory (QFT), developed by Issac Horowitz (Horowitz, 1963; Horowitz and Sidi, 1972), is a frequency domain technique utilising the Nichols chart (NC) in order to achieve a desired robust design over a specified region of plant uncertainty. Desired time-domain responses are tran..
Quantitative genetics
Quantitative genetics is the study of continuous traits (such as height or weight) and its underlying mechanisms. It is effectively an extension of simple Mendelian inheritance in that the combined effect of the many underlying genes results in a continuous distribution of phenotypic values. Co..
Quantitative history
Quantitative history is an application of statistical methodology developed in social science into the field of history. This type of history is often ignored by historians who conceptualize history as a record of events and view the theoretical and quantitative analysis of these events with skeptic..
Quantitative insulin sensitivity check index (QUICKI)
The quantitative insulin sensitivity check index (QUICKI) is derived using the inverse of the sum of the logarithms of the fasting insulin and fasting glucose: 1 / (log(fasting insulin µU/mL) + log(fasting glucose mg/dL)) This index correlates well with glucose clamp studies (r = 0.78), and is us..
Quantitative marketing research
Quantitative marketing research is the application of quantitative research techniques to the field of marketing. It has roots in both the positivist view of the world, and the modern marketing viewpoint that marketing is an interactive process in which both the buyer and seller reach a satisfying ..
Quantitative metathesis
Quantitative metathesis (also "metathesis of quantity") is a technical phonological term which refers to a situation in which two vowel sounds follow directly one after the other — one being long and the other short — and a transposition of vowel length takes place, such that the formerl..
Quantitative method
Quantitative methods are research methods dealing with numbers and anything that is measurable. They are therefore to be distinguished from qualitative methods. Counting and measuring are common forms of quantitative methods. The result of the research is a number, or a series of numbers. These a..
Quantitative notrump bids
This article concerns Contract Bridge and uses terminology associated with the game. See Contract bridge glossary for an explanation of unfamiliar words or phrases. Quantitative notrump bids is a bridge treatment whereby, following an opening bid of 1NT or 2NT, a response of 4NT is a slam try askin..
Quantitative no trump bids
This article concerns Contract Bridge and uses terminology associated with the game. See Contract bridge glossary for an explanation of unfamiliar words or phrases. In natural bidding systems most no trump (NT) bids are made with balanced hands and within a narrowly defined high card point (HCP) ra..
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) is a modification of polymerase chain reaction used to rapidly measure the quantity of a product of polymerase chain reaction. It is preferably done in real-time, thus is an indirect method for quantitatively measuring starting amounts of DNA, complemen..
Quantitative psychological research
Quantitative psychological research is psychological research which performs statistical estimation or statistical inference. This definition distinguishes it from qualitative psychological research; however, many psychologists do not acknowledge any real difference between quantitative and qualitat..
Quantitative psychology
Quantitative psychology is the application of statistical and mathematical methods to the study of psychology. This area of study is loosely divided into the subfields of psychometrics and mathematical psychology. Psychometrics may be characterized as the application of statistical models to probl..
Quantitative research
Quantitative research is the systematic scientific investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships. Quantitative research is widely used in both the natural and social sciences, including physics, biology, psychology, sociology, geology, education, and journalism. The..
Quantitative revolution
The quantitative revolution was one of the four major turning points in the history of geography (the other three being regional geography, environmental determinism and critical geography). The quantitative revolution occurred in the 1950s through to the 1960s and marked a rapid change in the meth..
Quantitative structure-activity relationship
QSAR (quantitative structure-activity relationship) is pronounced "q-sar" or "quasar". Sometimes the A stands also for affinity = reactivity or for property (quantitative structure-property relationship, QSPR). This intersecting field of cheminformatics, molecular modeling, and machine learning desc..
Quantitative trait locus
A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is a region of DNA that is associated with a particular phenotypic trait (e.g., plant height). Though not necessarily genes themselves, QTLs are stretches of DNA that are closely linked to the genes that underlie the trait in question. Typically, QTLs underlie co..
Quantity
Quantity is a kind of property which exists as magnitude or multitude. It is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Quantity was first introduced as quantum, an entity having quantity. Being a fundamental term, quantity is used to refer to any type of ..
Quantity (metadata)
In metadata, a Quantity is a non-monetary data element representation term type with unit of measure. If a monetary unit is described the Amount (metadata) should be used. If a physical object is measured using a metric such as height, length or weight, the representation term Measure should be us..
Quantity adjustment
In economics, the concept of quantity adjustment refers to one possible result of supply and demand disequilibrium in a market, either due to or in the absence of external constraints on the market. In the textbook story, if the quantity demanded does not equal the quantity supplied in a market, pri..
Quantity Is Job 1
Quantity Is Job 1 is the first and only EP of the band Five Iron Frenzy. It was released November 3, 1998 on Five Minute Walk. Unlisted on the package are tracks ten through seventeen, which include both "These Are Not My Pants (The Rock Opera)" and a studio outtake. The cover art was drawn by Do..
Quantity of electricity
In physics the term quantity of electricity refers to the quantity of electric charge. It is designated by the letter Q and is measured in terms of SI derived units called coulombs. Historical drift The term quantity of Electricity was once common in scientific publications. It appears frequentl..
Quantity sensitivity
In linguistics, quantity sensitivity refers to a certain quality of a prosodic stress system in which a closed syllable is assigned stress. ..
Quantity surveyor
A quantity surveyor is a professional person associated with the construction industry. There are two distinct types of Quantity Surveyor: a) Quantity Surveyors who are carrying out work on behalf of a client organisation often known as a PQS [Practising QS] b) Quantity Surveyors who wor..
Quantity theory of money
In economics, the velocity of money refers to a key term in the "quantity theory of money," which centers on the "equation of exchange": [M \cdot V = P \cdot Q] where [M] is the total amount of money in circulation in an economy at any one time (say, on average during a month)..
Quantization
Quantization is the procedure of constraining something to a discrete set of values, such as an integer, rather than a continuous set of values, such as a real number. Quantization in specific domains is discussed in: Quantization (signal processing)* Quantization (image processing)* Quantization (..
Quantization (image processing)
Quantization, involved in image processing. Quantization techniques generally compress by compressing a range of values to a single quantum value. By reducing the number of discrete symbols in a given stream, the stream becomes more compressible. For example seeking to reduce the number of colors re..
Quantization (linguistics)
In linguistics, a quantized expression is such that, whenever it is true of some entity, it is not true of any proper subparts of that entity. Example: If something is an "apple", then no proper subpart of that thing is an "apple". If something is "water", then many of its subparts will also be "wa..
Quantization (music)
This article is about quantization in music. For other uses, see Quantization. In digital music processing technology, quantization is the process of aligning a set of musical notes to conform to a grid. The most frequent application of quantization in this context lies within MIDI application soft..
Quantization (physics)
In physics, quantization is a procedure for constructing a quantum field theory starting from a classical field theory. This is a generalization of the procedure for building quantum mechanics from classical mechanics. One also speaks of field quantization, as in the "quantization of the electromagn..
Quantization (signal processing)
In digital signal processing, quantization is the process of approximating a continuous range of values (or a very large set of possible discrete values) by a relatively-small set of discrete symbols or integer values. More specifically, a signal can be multi-dimensional and quantization need no..
Quantization (sound processing)
In signal processing, quantization is the process of approximating a continuous range of values (or a very large set of possible discrete values) by a relatively-small set of discrete symbols or integer values. This article describes aspects of quantization related to sound signals. After samplin..
Quantization error
When converting from an analog signal to a digital signal, error is unavoidable. An analog signal is continuous, with ideally infinite accuracy, while the digital signal's accuracy is dependent on the quantization resolution, or number of bits of the analog to digital converter. The difference in ..
Quantization noise
Quantization noise is a noise error introduced by quantization in the analogue to digital conversion (ADC) process in telecommunication systems and signal processing. It is a rounding error between the analogue input voltage to the ADC and the output digitized value. The noise is non-linear and s..
Quanto
A quanto is a type of derivative in which the underlying is denominated in one currency, but the instrument itself is settled in another currency at some fixed rate. Such products are attractive for speculators and investors who wish to have exposure to a foreign asset, but without the corresponding..
Quantock Hills
The Quantock Hills are a range of hills near Bridgwater in Somerset in the south-west of England. The hills are officially designated as the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The highest point on the Quantocks is Will's Neck at 384 metres (1261 feet). The hills form the southern bor..
Quantrill's Raiders
Quantrill's Raiders were bushwhackers (Confederate guerrillas) who followed and fought under William Clarke Quantrill, an Ohio schoolteacher who relocated to Kansas, and who transformed a motley group of Southern sympathizing farmers and townsmen living behind Union lines into one of the Confederacy..
Quantrix
Quantrix is a powerful spreadsheet program, based on the same concepts and general layout as the seminal Lotus Improv. It was originally developed and sold for NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP by Lighthouse Design, the famous NeXT-based "virtual development company" that was later bought by Sun Microsystems. T..
Quants
Quants could refer to: Quants Reserve, a nature reserve in Somerset, EnglandQuantitative analyst This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the in..
Quants Reserve
Quants Reserve is a nature reserve in Somerset, England. It consists of a grassland clearing in a forestry plantation. It is well-known for its butterflies — among the species which occur are Duke of Burgundy, Marsh Fritillary and Wood White. ..
Quantum
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. In physics, a quantum (plural: quanta) refers to an indivisible and perhaps elementary entity. For instance, a "light quantum", being a unit of light (that is, a photon). In combinations like "quantum mechanics", "quantum optics", etc., it distinguishes a mo..
Quantum-Touch
Quantum-Touch is a purported method of healing promoted by Richard Gordon. It is an evolved version of his original Polarity therapy and Healing hands works. It is based on the concept of vibrations, love being the higher one. In healing others, the practitioner raises their own vibration, and trans..
Quantum3D
Quantum3D was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from 3dfx that was created to bring 3dfx's scalable graphics technologies (the Voodoo family of graphics chips) to the game enthusiast, coin-op/arcade/LBE and visual simulation and training market. Founded by 3dfx and SGI co-founders, the company has deve..
QuantumLink Serial
The QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed on AOL (1988-89) was the first episodic online story. The series was also known as the PC-Link Serial and the AppleLink Serial before all three services were unified when Quantum changed its name to AOL. Unlike ad-supported The Spot by Scott Zakarin (1995-97..
Quantum (comics)
Quantum is a fictional character, an elemental supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in West Coast Avengers II #12 (1986). Character biography In the first story he appeared in he was part of a team assembled by Graviton to resemble the Unified Field Theory. Halflife repre..
Quantum (disambiguation)
A quantum (plural: quanta) is an indivisible entity in physics. Quantum may also refer to: Quanta Cura, a Papal encyclicalQuantum Corporation, a manufacturer of computer data storage productsQuantum (comics), a comic book character Quanta may also refer to: Quanta Computers, a Taiwan-based manufact..
Quantum (TV Series)
Quantum was an Australian television show that aired on ABC Australia for 16 years. It aired its last episode on April 26, 2001, and has been replaced by Catalyst. References [The Official Quantum Website] ..
Quantum 1/f noise
Quantum 1/f noise is an intrinsic part of quantum mechanics. It comes from scattering of different particles of one another in solid state physics. Quantum 1/f noise is a source of Chaos in such systems. Other noise data sets 1/f noise has also recently been discovered in higher ordered self cons..
Quantum acoustics
In physics, quantum acoustics is the study of sound under conditions such that quantum mechanical effects are germane. For most applications, classical mechanics are sufficient to accurately describe the physics of sound. However very high frequency sounds, or sounds made at very low temperatures ma..
Quantum aesthetics
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Quantum and Woody
Quantum & Woody is a comedic comic book from Valiant Comics which first appeared in 1996. It was cancelled when Acclaim Entertainment shut down its comic book publishing division in anticipation of a bankruptcy filing after suffering heavy losses from video games such as BMX XXX and losing its sp..
Quantum annealing
In mathematics and applications, quantum annealing is a method for finding solutions to combinatorial optimization problems and ground states of glassy systems using quantum fluctuations. Unlike simulated annealing, which employs the strategy of slow cooling (physically, or in simulation) to find..
Quantum Art
Quantum Art, founded in 1998, is a web content management software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Quantum Art helps organizations treat information, not as documents or pages, but as lightweight content applications. Quantum Art's solutions are primarily used by organizations in..
Quantum Axcess
Quantum Axcess was a software publishing firm based in Columbus, Ohio. They published value-priced games and educational software. Their two biggest titles were "total conversion" addons for the popular game Quake, named Shrak and Malice. Quantum Axcess never fully met their financial obligations..
Quantum biology
Quantum biology is the science of studying biological processes in terms of quantum mechanics. In exploring quantum mechanical explanations for biological phenomena, the nascent science of quantum biology represents one of the first efforts to apply quantum theory to systems much more macroscopic th..
Quantum bogodynamics
Quantum bogodynamics is a humourous theory arising within hacker culture that characterises the universe in terms of sources of fictional fundamental particles; bogons. There are bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and suits in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpay..
Quantum brain dynamics
In neuroscience, quantum brain dynamics (QBD) is a proposed theory to explain the function of the brain with quantum mechanics. Although there are many blank areas in understanding the brain dynamics and especially how it gives rise to conscious experience it should be noted that quantum mechanics i..
Quantum calculus
Quantum calculus is equivalent to traditional infinitesimal calculus without the notion of limits. It defines "q-calculus" and "h-calculus". h stands for Planck's constant while q stands for quantum. The two parameters are related by the formula [q=\exp(ih)] An example of quantum calcul..
Quantum cascade laser
The quantum cascade laser or QC laser is a unipolar solid-state laser. Unlike conventional solid-state lasers, the optical transitions occur between electric subbands rather than between the conduction band and valence bands. The "cascade" is a series of equal energy steps built into the material ..
Quantum channel
In quantum information theory, a quantum channel is a communication channel which can transmit quantum information, as well as classical information. An example of quantum information is the state of a qubit. An example of classical information is the text of this article, which has been transmitte..
Quantum chaos
Quantum chaos is an interdisciplinary branch of physics, arising from so-called semi-classical models. Classical mechanics has historically been one of the fundamental theories of physics, and is complete in the sense that all its axioms are mutually consistent and not in need of further incrementa..
Quantum chemistry
This article is an historical introduction to the theoretical concepts of quantum chemistry. For information on computational methods in chemistry and more recent and/or technical aspects of quantum chemistry, see computational chemistry. For theoretical concepts related to chemistry see theoretical..
Quantum chromodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics (abbreviated as QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction, a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons found in nucleons (such as the proton and the neutron). QCD is a quantum field theory of a special kind called a non-abelian gauge theory. It ..
Quantum circuit
In quantum mechanics, a quantum circuit is a specific model for a quantum computational device. Experiments have already been carried out which can be regarded as implementing a seven-qubit quantum circuit that implements Shor's algorithm. Quantum circuits are also theoretically interesting as a to..
Quantum Cloud
Antony Gormley's Quantum Cloud was commissioned for a site next to the Millennium Dome in London. At 30 metres high, it is Gormley's tallest sculpture to date (taller than the Angel of the North). It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5m long sections of steel. The s..
Quantum coherence
Quantum coherence refers to the condition of a quantum system whose constituents are in-phase. That is, the various states that make up the combined wavefunction have a fixed phase relationship with one another, making them correlated to one another as described by quantum mechanics. This should be ..
Quantum compression
The Quantum compression format is a somewhat obscure data compression method invented by a company called Cinematronics (written by an author identified as David Stafford). Rights to it were purchased at some point by Microsoft, and Quantum is one of the possible compression methods in a CAB archi..
Quantum computer
A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. In a classical (or conventional) computer, the amount of data is measured by bits; in a quantum computer, it ..
Quantum Coreworld
QCW GNU The Quantum Coreworld, or simply the Coreworld, is an abstract world inhabited by assembly language programs running on a quantum virtual machine. This language--an extended version of Corewar's Redcode--permits programs to use quantum operations on quantum bits (qubits). The goal o..
Quantum Corp.
Quantum Corporation NYSE: [DSS] is a manufacturer of tape drive products, based in San Jose, California. From their founding in 1980 until 2000, they were also a major disk storage manufacturer (usually #2 in market share behind Seagate), and were based in Milpitas, California. Quantum go..
Quantum correlation
In Bell test experiments the term quantum correlation has come to mean the expectation value of the product of the outcomes on the two sides. In the paper that inspired the Bell tests -- John Bell's of 1964 -- it was assumed that the outcomes A and B could each only take one of two values, -1 or +1..
Quantum cosmology
In theoretical physics, quantum cosmology is a young field attempting to study the effect of quantum mechanics on the earliest moments of the universe after the Big Bang. Despite many attempts, the field remains a rather speculative branch of quantum gravity. An important problem in this field is t..
Quantum Critical Point
The Quantum critical point is the lowest temperature point (1-3 degrees Kelvin) at which a change of state-of-existence occurs. Experimentally, this has been demonstrated with the Han purple pigment. [National high magnetic field laboratory, press release May 31, 2006] (accessed June 15, ..
Quantum cryptography
Quantum cryptography uses quantum physics for secure communications. Unlike traditional cryptography, which employs various mathematical techniques to restrict eavesdroppers from learning the contents of encrypted messages, quantum cryptography is based on the physics of information. Eavesdropping ..
Quantum cybernetics
Any realistic understanding of quantum phenomena is confronted with the fact that they can both have a “discrete” (“particle-like”) or a “continuous” (“wave-like”) character. In corresponding attempts to understand the laws of quantum theory (rather than depicting them as being due t..
Quantum darwinism
Wojciech Hubert Zurek Quantum darwinism is a theory explaining the emergence of the classical world from the quantum world as due to a process of Darwinian selection. It is proposed by Wojciech Zurek and a group of collaborators including Ollivier, Poulin, Paz and Blume-Kohout. The developmen..
Quantum decoherence
In quantum mechanics, quantum decoherence is the mechanism by which quantum systems interact with their environments to exhibit probabilistically additive behavior - a feature of classical physics - and give the appearance of wavefunction collapse. Decoherence occurs when a system interacts with its..
Quantum defect
The term quantum defect can refer to two things: The quantum defect of a laser is the energy lost (not turned into photons at the lasing wavelength) when electrons in the gain medium transition from an excited to a non-excited state.The quantum defect of a Rydberg atom is a correction applied to the..
Quantum degeneracy
A quantum degeneracy is a quantum eigenvalue which has more than one linearly independent eigenvector. For instance, the quantum degeneracy of the [1s^1] electron configuration within a hydrogen atom is two in the absence of an external magnetic field, because there are two linearly indep..
Quantum dot
Fluorescence induced by exposure to ultraviolet light in vials containing various sized Cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots. A quantum dot, also called a semiconductor nanocrystal or an artificial atom, is a semiconductor crystal whose size is on the order of just a few nanometers. They cont..
Quantum dot laser
A quantum dot laser succeeds in minimizing temperature-sensitive output fluctuations, something not possible with previous semiconductor lasers. Fujitsu and the University of Tokyo have developed a 10 Gbit/s quantum dot laser not affected by temperature, for use in optical data communications and op..
Quantum Effect Devices
Quantum Effect Devices was a company originally named Quantum Effect Design, incorporated in 1991. The three founders, Tom Riordan, Earl Killian and Ray Kunita were senior managers at MIPS Computer Systems Inc.. They left MIPS at a time when the company was having a difficult time selling entire com..
Quantum efficiency
A graph showing variation of quantum efficiency with wavelength of the CCD chips in the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Quantum efficiency (QE) is a quantity defined for a photosensitive device such as photographic film or a charge-coupled device (CCD) as the percen..
Quantum electrochemistry
The scientific school of Quantum electrochemistry began to form in the 1960s under Revaz Dogonadze. Generally speaking, the field is comprised of the notions arising in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and electrochemistry; and so is studied by a very large array of different professional resear..
Quantum electrodynamics
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is a relativistic quantum field theory of electromagnetism. QED mathematically describes all phenomena involving electrically charged particles interacting by means of exchange by photons, whether the interaction is between light and matter or between two charged partic..
Quantum electrodynamic threshold
In a 2003 cover story of Scientific American, there's an article about magnetars, pulsars with extremely strong magnetic fields. What makes the theory about magnetars so tricky is that the fields are stronger than the quantum electrodynamic threshold of 4 × 1013 gauss (4 × 109 tesla). ..
Quantum electronics
Quantum electronics is an area of physics dealing with the effects of quantum mechanics on the behaviour of electrons in solid state matter. It is today rarely considered a subfield in its own right, as it has been absorbed by other fields: solid state physics regularly takes quantum mechanics into..
Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects may be spatially separated. This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the system..
Quantum eraser experiment
In physics, the quantum eraser experiment is a double-slit experiment in which particle entanglement and selective polarization is used to determine which slit a particle goes through by measuring the particle's entangled partner. This entangled partner never enters the double slit experiment. As ex..
Quantum error correction
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Quantum error correction is for use in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors due t..
Quantum evolution
For the alternative non-standard theory see: Quantum evolution (alternative). Quantum evolution was a component of George Gaylord Simpson's (1902-1984) multi-tempoed theory of evolutionary change. According to Simpson (1944), some lineages in the fossil record evolved with extraordinary slowness, o..
Quantum evolution (alternative)
Quantum evolution is the hypothesis that genetic mutation is adaptive, or directed through quantum effects.[#endnote_1] The "classical" Darwinian model of the evolution of cells is based on a mechanism whereby cells individually undergo mutation, with the process of natural selection th..
Quantum Explosion Dynamo
The Quantum Explosion Dynamo (QED) is an object featured in the Commander Keen computer game, in episode 5, The Armageddon Machine. It is the heart of the Omegamatic, built by Mortimer McMire and allowing the Shikadi to blow up the galaxy with a "100,000 light year diameter quantum explosion". �..
Quantum field theory
Quantum field theory (QFT) is the application of quantum mechanics to fields. It provides a theoretical framework, widely used in particle physics and condensed matter physics, in which to formulate consistent quantum theories of many-particle systems, especially in situations where particles may be..
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes is an extension of the standard quantum field theory to curved spacetimes. The theory studies the dynamics of quantum matter fields that propagate in static curved backgrounds. Thanks to the equivalence principle the quantization procedure closely resembles ..
Quantum fingerprinting
Quantum fingerprinting is a proposed technique that uses a quantum computer to generate a string with a similar function to the cryptographic hash function. If unconditional guarantees of security are needed, and if it is impractical for the communicating parties to arrange to share a secret that c..
Quantum flavordynamics
In quantum mechanics, quantum flavordynamics (or "flavourdynamics") is a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavored particles (Weak nuclear force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons, but the term is rarely used by practicing particle physicists. See also Fundam..
Quantum fluctuation
In quantum physics, a quantum fluctuation is the temporary change in the amount of energy in a point in space, arising from Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. According to one formulation of the principle, energy and time can be related by the relation [\Delta E \Delta t \approx ..
Quantum fluid
A quantum fluid can refer to a cluster of valence electrons moving together after they undergo fermionic condensation. Under extremely high pressures and low temperatures electrons may condense into a quantum fluid. In such a state, electrical current can theoretically flow forever with a complet..
Quantum flux parametron
Invented by Eiichi Goto at the University of Tokyo, the Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP) is an improvement over his earlier parametron based digital logic technology. Unlike its predecessor, QFP uses superconducting Josephson junctions on integrated circuits to improve speed and energy efficiency enorm..
Quantum foam
Quantum foam, also referred to as spacetime foam, is a concept in quantum mechanics, devised by John Wheeler in 1955. It is sometimes likened to the old concept of the ether/aether. The foam is a qualitative description of the turbulence that the phenomenon creates at extremely small distances of..
Quantum Fourier transform
The quantum Fourier transform is the discrete Fourier transform with a particular decomposition into a product of simpler unitary matrices. Using this decomposition, the discrete Fourier transform can be implemented as a quantum circuit consisting of Hadamard gates and controlled phase shift gates..
Quantum fractal
Quantum fractal is a new method of routing highly complex interconnected entities (HCIE) via the general stochastic model presented by the Schrödinger conjecture. The method takes advantage of the probabilistic state of an unknown system to put forth the assumption that the HCIE is/has/could have ..
Quantum gate
A quantum gate or quantum logic gate is a rudimentary quantum circuit operating on a small number of qubits. They are the analogues for quantum computers to classical logic gates for conventional digital computers. Quantum logic gates are reversible, unlike many classical logic gates. Some univers..
Quantum gauge theory
See gauge theory for the classical preliminaries. In order to quantize a gauge theory, like for example Yang-Mills theory, Chern-Simons or BF model, one method is to perform a gauge fixing. This is done in the BRST and Batalin-Vilkovisky formulation. Another is to factor out the symmetry by dispens..
Quantum geometry
In theoretical physics, quantum geometry is the set of new mathematical concepts generalizing the concepts of geometry whose understanding is necessary to describe the physical phenomena at very short distance scales (comparable to Planck length). At these distances, quantum mechanics has a profound..
Quantum GIS
Quantum GIS (often abbreviated to QGIS) is an opensource GIS (mapping) application which is similar to commercial mapping packages. Because it is distributed as an opensource application under the GNU distribution license, Quantum GIS can be reprogrammed to perform different or more specialist task..
Quantum gravity
Quantum gravity is the field of theoretical physics attempting to unify the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes three of the fundamental forces of nature, with general relativity, the theory of the fourth fundamental force: gravity. The ultimate goal of some is a unified framework for all f..
Quantum gravity epoch
In physical cosmology, the quantum gravity epoch is the first era in the history of the Universe according to the standard Big Bang cosmology. In this era, the effects of quantum gravity such as fluctuating topology of space are commonplace. The temperature is comparable to the Planck scale. Other e..
Quantum group
In mathematics and theoretical physics, quantum groups are examples of quasitriangular Hopf algebras. There are various structures referred to as quantum groups. Contents 1 Drinfel'd type quantum groups1.1 Representation Theory1.1.1 Case 1: ''q'' is not a Quantum groups at q Ma..
Quantum gyroscope
In 1962, Cambridge University physicist Brian Josephson hypothesized that an electrical current could travel between two superconducting materials even when they were separated by a thin insulating layer. The term Josephson effect has come to refer generically to the different behaviors that occur ..
Quantum Hall effect
The quantum Hall effect is a quantum-mechanical version of the Hall effect, observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, in which the Hall conductance σ takes on the quantized values [ \sigma = \nu \; \frac, ] where e is the elem..
Quantum harmonic oscillator
The quantum harmonic oscillator is the quantum mechanical analogue of the classical harmonic oscillator. It is one of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics because, as in classical mechanics, a wide variety of physical situations can be reduced to it either exactly or approximately. ..
Quantum heterostructure
Quantum heterostructure is a heterostructure in a substrate (usually a semiconductor material), with size restricting the movements of the charge carriers and forcing them into a quantum confinement, leading to formation of a set of discrete energy levels the carriers can exist at. Quantum heterostr..
Quantum history
In some physics theories, choosing a 3-geometry via spin network and 4-geometry via spin foam, any superposition of spin networks is called a kinematical state and any superposition of spin foams is called a quantum history. ..
Quantum hydrodynamics
Quantum hydrodynamics is more than the study of superfluidity. Some of the main subjects in quantum hydrodynamics are quantum turbulence, quantized vortices, first, second and third sound, and quantum solvents. The quantum hydrodynamic equation is an equation in Bohmian mechanics, which, it turns ..
Quantum immortality
Quantum immortality is the controversial speculation deriving from the quantum suicide thought experiment that states the Everett many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that conscious beings are immortal. Contents 1 Explanation of the thought experiment2 Required assump..
Quantum indeterminacy
Quantum indeterminacy is the apparent necessary incompleteness in the description of a physical system, that has become one of the characteristics of the standard description of quantum physics. Prior to quantum physics, it was thought that (a) a physical system had a determinate state which uniqu..
Quantum inequalities
This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry.Please improve the article or discuss proposed changes on the talk page. See Wikipedia's [Guide to writing better articlesguide to writing better articles] for suggestions. In General Rel..
Quantum information
In quantum mechanics, quantum information is physical information that is held in the "state" of a quantum system. The most popular unit of quantum information is the qubit, a two-state quantum system. However, unlike classical digital states (which are discrete), a two-state quantum system can act..
Quantum information science
Quantum information science concerns information science that depends on quantum effects in physics. It includes theoretical issues in computational models as well as more experimental topics in quantum physics including what can and cannot be done with quantum information. The term quantum informa..
Quantum Jump
See quantum leap for the concept in physics from which this band derived its name. Quantum Jump was a 1970s British cult band, consisting of Rupert Hine, Mark Warner, John G. Perry and Trevor Morais. Discography:: Quantum Jump (1976)Barracuda (1977)Mixing (remix collection, 1979) The first two ..
Quantum leap
In physics, a quantum leap or quantum jump is a change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to another. This is a discontinuous change in which the electron goes from one energy level to another without passing through any intermediate levels. This phenomenon contradicted expectatio..
Quantum Leap
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. "Sam Beckett" redirects here. For , see Samuel Beckett. Quantum Leap was a science fiction television series ..
Quantum Learning Network
The Quantum Learning Network (QLN) is an education and training organization based in Oceanside, California. Prior to 2005, the organization was known as the Learning Forum. The QLN's flagship program is SuperCamp, a summer camp program developed initially by Bobbi DePorter, Eric Jensen and Greg S..
Quantum Legacy
Quantum Legacy: Initial Tactics and Quantum Legacy: Price of Justice are 3D Online Browser or Downloadble Client based Multiplayer Shockwave driven games created by [Four Thirty One Interactive]. They are the only ones of their kind (both complexity and size) currently available on ..
Quantum level
Quantum levels are fixed levels with a logarithmic, descending quantum pattern in the visible spectrum of light that can be observed through a spectrometer while looking at intense flows of electricity through the various halides on the periodic table in a vacuum tube. They also have some use in che..
Quantum Link
Quantum Link main menu Quantum Link (or Q-Link) was a U.S.online service for Commodore 64 and 128 personal computers that operated from November 5, 1985 to November 1, 1994. It was operated by Quantum Computer Services of Vienna, Virginia, which in October 1991 changed its name to America Onli..
Quantum Link Reloaded
QuantumLink RELOADED is a re-implementation of the original Quantum Link service designed for the Commodore 64 computer system. Although now open for public use, development continues for a formal introduction on the 20th Anniversary of the introduction of Q-Link, November 5, 2005. The new service..
Quantum logic
In mathematical physics and quantum mechanics, quantum logic can be regarded as a kind of propositional logic suitable for understanding the apparent anomalies regarding quantum measurement, most notably those concerning composition of measurement operations of complementary variables. This resear..
Quantum Magazine
Quantum Magazine is a start-up magazine covering physics aimed at the "casual physics enthusiast". The magazine was aiming for a fourth quarter 2005 launch but has since announced that they will begin publishing in 2006. External links [Quantum Magazine Official Site] ..
Quantum mechanical Bell test prediction
In physics, the quantum mechanical Bell test prediction is the prediction that quantum mechanics would give for the correlation probabilities for a set of measurements performed on a quantum entangled state. An important outcome of this prediction is that it violates the Bell inequality, which, as a..
Quantum mechanics
For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to . Fig. 1: The wavefunctions of an electron in a hydrogen atom possessing definite energy (increasing downward: n=1,2,3,...) and angular momentum (increasing across: s, p, d,...). Brighter areas correspond to higher probab..
Quantum mechanics, philosophy and controversy
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Quantum mechanics has had many detractors including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schroedinger. Quantum mech..
Quantum meruit
Quantum meruit is a Latin phrase meaning "as much as he has deserved". In the context of contract law, it means something along the lines of "reasonable value of services". Situations The concept of quantum meruit applies to the following situations: I. When a person employs (impliedly or expres..
Quantum metrology
Quantum metrology is the study of making high resolution measurements of parameters using quantum theory to describe the physical systems. This can give rise to measurements which give better precision than the same measurement performed in a classical framework. One example of note is the use of ..
Quantum mind
The quantum mind or quantum consciousness is a protoscientific hypothesis that posits a connection between consciousness, neurobiology, and quantum mechanics. There are many blank areas in understanding the dynamics of the Human brain and especially how it gives rise to consciousness. The hypothesis..
Quantum mineralogy
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Quantum mirage
In physics, a quantum mirage is a peculiar result in quantum chaos. Every system of quantum dynamical billiards will exhibit an effect called scarring, where the quantum probability density shows traces of the paths a classical billiard ball would take. For an elliptical arena, the scarring is parti..
Quantum Monte Carlo
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Quantum mutual information
In quantum information theory, quantum mutual information, or von Neumann mutual information, is a measure of correlation between subsystems of quantum state. It is the quantum mechanical analog of Shannon mutual information. Motivation For simplicity, it will be assumed that all objects in the ar..
Quantum network
The idea of a quantum network emerged after successful experiments on quantum teleportation. When two companies (one from Switzerland, 'idQuantique', and another from the USA, 'MagiQTech') released practcal communication devices based upon the rules of quantum mechanics, the need for a secure networ..
Quantum neural network
Quantum neural networks (QNN) refers to the class of neural network models, artificial or biological, which rely on principles inspired in some way from quantum mechanics. Two different classes may be generally distinguished: The class of quantum neural networks which explicitly use concepts from ..
Quantum number
A quantum number describes the energies of electrons in atoms. Each quantum number specifies the value of a conserved quantity in the dynamics of the quantum system. Since any quantum system can have one or more quantum numbers, it is a futile job to list all possible quantum numbers. Contents 1..
Quantum ontology
Quantum ontology is based on the idea that the underlying reality of quantum mechanics fundamentally alters the nature of mankind's (and, by extension, any other sentient race's) ontological existence. For a fictional treatment of quantum ontological themes, see the works of science fiction writer ..
Quantum operation
In quantum mechanics, a quantum operation is a mathematical formalism used to describe a broad class of transformations that a quantum mechanical system can undergo. This formalism describes not only time evolution or symmetry transformations of isolated systems, but also transient interactions with..
Quantum optics
Quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter. Contents 1 History of quantum optics2 Concepts of quantum optics3 See also4 External links History of quantum opt..
Quantum Pharmaceuticals
Quantum Pharmaceuticals is one of the world leading drug discovery and computational chemistry technology developers. Quantum Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company based in Moscow, Russia and formed in 2002. Contents 1 History2 Technology3 Software and Areas of applica..
Quantum phase transition
In physics, a quantum phase transition (QPT) is a phase transition between different quantum phases (phases of matter at zero temperature). Contrary to classical phase transitions, quantum phase transitions can be only be accessed by varying a physical parameter - such as magnetic field or pressure ..
Quantum philosophy
Quantum Philosophy is the title of a book on quantum metaphysics by Roland Omnès. Quantum philosophy is also one of several alternative names for the general field of quantum metaphysics. Quantum Philosophy, the book by Roland OmnèsQuantum metaphysics, the article on the general field of quantum ..
Quantum Philosophy (book)
Quantum Philosophy is a book by the physicist Roland Omnès, in which he aims to show the non-specialist reader how modern devolopments in quantum mechanics allow the recovery of our common sense view of the world. Contents 1 Book Contents2 Brief Summary of Omnès' Central Argument3&nbs..
Quantum point contact
A Quantum Point Contact (QPC) is a small point-like connection between two electrically-conducting regions. The typical size of such a constriction lies in the range of nano- to micrometre. Contents 1 Fabrication2 Properties3 Applications4 Further reading Fabrication There a..
Quantum praedecessores
Quantum praedecessores is a papal bull issued on December 1, 1145, by Pope Eugene III, calling for a Second Crusade. It was the first papal bull issued with a crusade as its subject. The bull was issued in response to the fall of Edessa, in December of 1144. Pilgrims from the east had brought news ..
Quantum probability
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Quantum programming
Quantum programming is a set of computer programming languages that allow the expression of quantum algorithms using high-level constructs. Efforts are underway to develop functional programming languages for quantum computing. Examples include Selinger's QPL http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pa..
Quantum programming language
Quantum Programming Language is a programming language, which can be used to write programmes for quantum computers. Since every quantum machine has to be controlled by classical device, existing quantum programming languages incorporate classical control structures such as loops and conditional ex..
Quantum pseudo-mysticism
Quantum mysticism is a term used by Margaret Wertheim and others to describe the metaphysical or New Age interpretation of quantum mechanics.[link] As often happens in the wake of new scientific ideas, the notions implicit in quantum mechanics influenced philosophical thought, especially ..
Quantum Psychology
Cover of Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World was written by Robert Anton Wilson and originally published in 1990. Some consider Quantum Psychology a follow-up to Wilson's earlier volume Prometheus Rising, mainly for the pre..
Quantum Quality Productions
Quantum Quality Productions (also known by their initials QQP) was a computer games company specializing in strategy games and war games. Run by Bruce Williams Zaccagnino and Mark Baldwin it produced a number of games that achieved "cult status", most prominently The Perfect General. In 1994 due t..
Quantum randomness
Bohm explained the origin of uncontrollable local quantum randomness as the violation of the action-reaction principle between wave and particle. Bohr's quantum theory only uses the quantum information wave. It throws away the particle. Bohm keeps the particle and the wave. See also Quantum chaos ..
Quantum Redshift
Quantum Redshift is a futuristic racing game, developed by Curly Monsters and published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2002. Created by game designer Nick Burcombe, known for developing Wipeout on the PlayStation, the game put the player in the shoes of 16 different characters, paired off in rivalr..
Quantum reflection
Quantum reflection is physical phenomenon of reflection of matter waves from attractive potential. This term refers to the case when the reflection of classical particle is not possible. Usually the single-dimensional case is considered, when the potential has translational symmetry in two direction..
Quantum register
A quantum register is the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical processor register. A mathematical description of a quantum register is achieved by using a tensor product of qubit bra or ket vectors. For example, an [n] qubit quantum register is described by an element [|\Psi\ran..
Quantum relative entropy
In quantum information theory, quantum relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability between two quantum states. It is the quantum mechanical analog of relative entropy. Contents 1 Motivation2 Definition2.1 Non-finite relative entropy3 Klein's inequality3.1 Correspo..
Quantum singularity (fiction)
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Quantum slipstream technology
Quantum Slipstream Technology is a fictional concept from the Star Trek universe. It is presumed that this technology was the standard interstellar propulsion method used by the Species of the Alien Arturis prior to their assimilation by the Borg. In the [[Star_Trek:_Voyager|Voyager]] episode "Hope ..
Quantum solid
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Quantum solvent
Any superfluid can theoretically act as a quantum solvent. In practice, the only viable superfluid medium that can be used is helium-4, and it has been successfully accomplished in controlled conditions. Any inhomogeneity in the bulk superfluid medium will tend to aggregate together, encapsulated b..
Quantum sort
A quantum sort is any sorting algorithm that runs on a quantum computer. Such an algorithm could at best be linearly faster than any existing sort algorithm (if based on comparisons like classical algorithms), but no such algorithm has actually been implemented. An in-joke among some computer scien..
Quantum Space
Quantum Space was the first play-by-email game offered as part of a major commercial online service. It ran on AOL from 1989 to 1992. The game was developed by Stormfront Studios, designed and programmed by Don Daglow and produced by Kathi McHugh. In 1990-91 Quantum Space was the highest-rated te..
Quantum state
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Quantum statistical mechanics
Quantum statistical mechanics is the study of statistical ensembles of quantum mechanical systems. A statistical ensemble is described by a density operator S, which is a non-negative, self-adjoint, trace-class operator of trace 1 on the Hilbert space H describing the quantum system. This can be s..
Quantum suicide
In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide is a thought experiment which was independently proposed in 1987 by Hans Moravec and in 1988 by Bruno Marchal, and further developed by Max Tegmark in 1998, that attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett m..
Quantum superposition
Quantum superposition is the application of the superposition principle to quantum mechanics. The superposition principle is the addition of the amplitudes of waves from interference. In quantum mechanics it is the amplitudes of wavefunctions, or state vectors, that add. It occurs when an object sim..
Quantum teleportation
In quantum information, quantum teleportation, or entanglement-assisted teleportation is a technique that transfers a quantum state to an arbitrarily distant location using a distributed entangled state and the transmission of some classical information. Quantum teleportation does not transport ener..
Quantum thermodynamics
In the physical sciences, quantum thermodynamics is the study of heat and work dynamics in quantum systems. Approximately, quantum thermodynamics attempts to combine thermodynamics and quantum mechanics into a coherent whole. Contents 1 Overview2 See also3 References4 Externa..
Quantum tomography
Quantum tomography or quantum state tomography is the process of reconstructing the quantum state (density matrix) for a source of quantum systems by measurements on the systems coming from the source. To be able to uniquely identify the state, the measurements must be tomographically complete, that..
Quantum Tunneling Composite
Quantum Tunneling Composites (or QTCs) are composite materials of metals and elastomeric binder. What is significant about QTCs is that their resistance can be changed by the application of pressure. This happens because of [Quantum tunnelling] between the particles of QTCs. In an unpress..
Quantum tunnelling
Quantum tunnelling (or tunneling) is the quantum-mechanical effect of transitioning through a classically-forbidden energy state. It can be generalized to other types of classically-forbidden transitions as well. Consider rolling a ball up a hill. If the ball is not given enough velocity, then it w..
Quantum turbulence
Quantum Turbulence is the turbulent flow of quantized vortices. It occurs in low temperature fluids such as Helium 3. See also Superfluid External links http://physicsweb.org/article/world/16/8/3 ..
Quantum Turing machine
A quantum Turing machine is an abstract machine used to model the effect of a quantum computer. It provides a very simple model which captures all of the power of quantum computation. Any quantum algorithm can be expressed formally as a particular quantum Turing machine; thus, quantum Turing machi..
Quantum vibration
A quantum vibration is a vibration of a chemical bond in a molecule that must be treated quantum mechanically. The low-lying vibration energy states can be described as states of the quantum harmonic oscillator, and as higher vibrational states, near the bond disassociation limit, as Morse oscillat..
Quantum virtual machine
A Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) is a virtual machine which emulates a quantum computer. It provides a structure for a quantum register (the memory of a quantum computer) and operations for the manipulation of a quantum register. See also libquantum: a C-language implementation of a Quantum Virtual ..
Quantum waveform generator
In the games Homeworld, [[Homeworld: Cataclysm]] and Homeworld 2, the larger vessels are equipped with a 'Hyperspace core' or Quantum Waveform Generator. The Quantum Waveform Generator (Or QWG), opens a 'window' to a 'tunnel' through which a space ship can bypass relativity's speed of light limit..
Quantum well
A quantum well is a potential well that confines particles, which were originally free to move in three dimensions, to two dimensions, forcing them to occupy a planar region. The effects of quantum confinement take place when the quantum well thickness becomes comparable at the de Broglie wavelength..
Quantum wire
In condensed matter physics, a quantum wire is an electrically conducting wire, in which quantum effects are affecting transport properties. Due to the confinement of conduction electrons in the transverse direction of the wire, their transverse energy is quantized into a serie of discrete values &..
Quantum yield
The Quantum Yield of a radiation-induced process is the number of times that a defined event (usually a chemical reaction step) occurs per photon absorbed by the system. Thus, the Quantum Yield is a measure of the efficiency with which absorbed light produces some effect. For example, in a chemical..
Quantum Zeno effect
The quantum Zeno effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon first described by George Sudarshan and Baidyanaith Misra of the University of Texas in 1977. It describes the situation that an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay. This occurs because every measurement causes the ..
Quant pole
A quant (quant pole) is a pole used to propel a barge (barge pole) or punt through water. A barge quant often has a cap at the top and a prong at the bottom to stop it from sinking into the mud. A quant used with a punt is about 4 metres long and made from either wood or a hollow metal, so that in e..
Quanzhen
The Quanzhen School (Traditional Chinese: 全真教; Simplified Chinese: 全真教; pinyin: quán zhēn jiào) is a major sect of Taoism that originated in China. It was founded by a Taoist priest, Wang Chongyang in the 12th century during the rise of the Jurchens of Jin Dynasty. When the Mongols ov..
Quanzhou
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Quanzhou Normal College
Quanzhou Normal College (泉州师范学院) is a public college located in Quanzhou, Fujian, China. Now called Quanzhou Normal University, its website address is http://www.qztc.edu.cn/index.asp ..
Quan "Meld" Nong
Quan "Meld" Nong was the former guitarist for Slipknot in 1993 when the project first began under the nickname "Meld". However, sometime during the sixth practice of the band, Quan Nong left due to his following of a more alternative/punk style of music. He did not wear a mask. He was also an ex-me..
Quan Chi
Quan Chi )-()-((}}) Quan Chi made his debut in the animated series, [[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm]], which aired a year before the Mythologies game. In the episode "The Secret of Quan Chi", he used his sorcery to turn everyone on Earth against each other, creating pandemonium and cha..
Quan Cong
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Quan fa
Quan fa (Pinyin quánfǎ or Wade-Giles ch'üan2 fa3, 拳法 "fist principles") is a generic term used for open handed Chinese martial arts. This was the kind of boxing that influenced Okinawan karate, and is pronounced in Japanese as kempo. See also Kung fu (term)Wushu ..
Quan Khi Dao
Qwan Ki Do (Quan Khi Dao) ist a vietnamese martial art. Qwan Ki Do mostly uses hand-, foot-, jumping and scissor techniques, animal forms such as Tiger (Ho), Crane (Bach Hac), Monkey (Hau Nhi), Snake (Xa), Dragon (Long) and others, as well as multiple weapon techniques with sword, staff (one-, tw..
Quan Yin Method
The term Quan Yin Method was coined in the 1970s by Suma Ching Hai, a controversial spiritual teacher, to describe the type of meditation that she herself practices and teaches. The spelling is an idiosyncratic romanisation of a Chinese term said to be in English translation: “contemplation on the..
Quaoar (deity)
Quaoar is the name of a creation deity of the Native American Tongva people, native to the area around Los Angeles. According to Tongva mythology, Quaoar sings and dances the world and other deities into existence. Like in most other creation myths, at first there was Chaos. Then along came Quaoa..
Quap
A surname of Eastern European heritage, also spelled Quapp, Quappe, and has many other variations. Also, a hypothetical nuclear of a quark plus an antiproton. A verb meaning To quaver. Several other slang terms have been attributed to the word, such as: An acronym originally created in late ..
Quapaw
The Quapaw people are a tribe of Native Americans who historically resided on the west side of the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Arkansas. Today they live in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Their language is of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan language family. Although it is no longer spoke..
Quapaw, Oklahoma
Quapaw is a town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 984 at the 2000 census. Geography Quapaw is located at [36°57′13″N, 94°47′23″W] (36.953673, -94.789602)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town ..
Quapaw Quarter, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock, Arkansas is a section of the city including its oldest and most historic business and residential neighborhoods. The name of the area was first given in 1961, honoring the Quapaw Indians who once lived in the area centuries ago. As many as fifteen separate Nation..
Quaqtaq, Quebec
Quaqtaq (population 307) is an Inuit village in Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada. The village is one of the northernmost inhabited places in Quebec, located on the eastern shore of Diana Bay (Tuvaaluk in the Inuktitut language), on a peninsula which protrudes into the Hudson Strait where it meets ..
Quaqtaq Airport
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Quaquaversal
Quaquaversal means "turned in whatever way", from Latin quisquis. In geology it means "dipping in all directions". This would refer (for example) to the lava beds formed from the central crater of a dome-shaped volcano. Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ..
Quaquerni
The Quaquerni were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, province of Minho, in the mountains at the mouths of the rivers Tâmega and Cávado. External links [Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples o..
Quarab
The Quarab is a cross between an American Quarter Horse and an Arabian. They may also be registered with Paint horse blood instead of Quarter Horse. The horses may have from 1/8 to 7/8 of either breed, with any more or less of Arabian or Quarter Horse blood not eligible for registry. The horses us..
Quaranta
The Quaranta family is an ancient and noble Italian family, with its origin in Scandinavia, established at the end of the 11 century in the district of Salerno. History The Founder of the Quaranta (forty in Italian) family was a medieval Norman knight who returned from the [Crusades] in..
Quarantine
For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation) Quarantine is enforced isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous (often disease). The word comes from the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning forty days. Quarantine is also used as a general term for blockading (such ..
Quarantine (disambiguation)
Quarantine is a medical term for the act of keeping an object in enforced isolation for a period of time to limit or prevent the spread of disease or infection. Quarantine may also be: Quarantine (game), a video game for the 3D0 and IBM PC systemsQuarantine (novel), a science fiction novel by Gre..
Quarantine (game)
Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter computer game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek. In the game the player drivers a taxicab through a post-apocalyptic city, while picking up customers and killing enemies. Due to the gratuitous violence the game was co..
Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)
For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation) Quarantine is a novel by Jim Crace. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the same year. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Set in the ..
Quarantine (novel)
Quarantine is also a novel by Jim Crace, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation) Quarantine is a hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan. Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of ..
Quarantine (record label)
Quarantine is an English drum & bass record label owned by DJ Fierce. See also List of record labelsList of jungle and drum n bass record labels External link [Discography on Rolldabeats.com] ..
Quarantine (The Twilight Zone)
[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Scott Wilson is a SDI weapons designer who is reanimated into an unknown future after being cryogenically frozen for an incurable illness for three centuries. He is greeted by Tess Harper, a telepathic woman of the futur..
Quarantine (TUGS episode)
"Quarantine" was the seventh episode of the children's series TUGS. The title referred to the main focus of the story - the newly introduced Quarantine regulation in Bigg City. Brief Synopsis Due to increasingly warm weather in Bigg City, many foreign tramp steamers are put under quarantine, under ..
Quarantine (video game)
Quarantine is a video game series developed by amateur gamemaker, Andrew J. Young. It was made for Windows using the Game Maker development tool. The first Quarantine was released on December 4, 2005. It met with mediocre success at the GMC where member's had an average of 7-8 out of 10, or rough..
Quarantine Speech
The Quarantine Speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and isolationism that was prevalent at the time. The speech intensifie..
Quarantine technology
In December, 1988, shortly after the Morris Worm, Jay Nickson started work on Quarantine, an anti-malware and file reliability product. released in April, 1989, Quarantine was the first such product to use file signature instead of viral signature methods. The original Quarantine used Hunt's B-tre..
Quarashi
Quarashi (Left to right: Omar Swarez (Omar Örn Hauksson), Tiny (Egill Olafur Thorarensen), and Sölvi Blöndal. Kneeling down: Steini a.k.a. Stoney (Steinar Orri Fjeldsted)) Quarashi was a rap/hip-hop band from Reykjavík, Iceland. It was comprised of Hössi Olafsson (replaced by Tiny (real n..
Quarashi (album)
On October 13, 1997, Quarashi released their self titled debut album (dubbed "The Egg Album" by fans, due to the fact that an egg appears on the album cover). The album was an immediate smash, topping the Icelandic album charts thanks to its collection of catchy rap songs such as "Thunderball", "C..
Quaregnon
Quaregnon is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January 1 2005 Quaregnon had a total population of 18,676. The total area is 11.08 km² which gives a population density of 1,685.73 inhabitants per km². ..
Quare impedit
Quare impedit, in English law, a form of action by which the right of presentation to a benefice is tried. It is so called from the words of the writ formerly in use, which directed the sheriff to command the person disturbing the possession to permit the plaintiff to present a fit person, or to sh..
Quarff Primary School
Quarff Primary School was a school that existed from 1905 until it was closed in 2003, due to a lack of interest in the position of headmaster. The 17 students at the school were forced to move to Cunningsburgh School, where their former headmistress was working. Fortunately, the students were able..
Quarg
Quarg is a fresh cheese of German origin, produced using mesophilic lactococcus cultures. [#endnote_quargmfg] in [#endnote_rats] It is soft cheese, and a member of the acid cheese group. [#endnote_cheese] References ↑ ↑ ↑  External links [Pu..
Quark
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. In particle physics, quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter. (The other Standard Model fermions are the leptons.) Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks are the only fundamental particles that interact through all four of the ..
QuArK
The Quake Army Knife (QuArK) is a multi-purpose tool for the games using engines similar to or based on the Quake engine by id Software. QuArK has the ability to directly edit maps, and to a limited extent, models. It can import, export, and convert sounds, textures and various other game assets...
Quark, Inc.
Quark, Inc. (founded 1981 in Denver, Colorado) is a privately-owned software company best known for QuarkXPress and QuarkDDS. Quark's attempts to diversify into other related areas have so far failed (multimedia development, photo/image editing), the only other success so far is QPS, an editorial s..
Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Quark Strangeness & Charm is a 1977 album by Hawkwind. It may be worth noting that strange and charm are both types of quark. Track listing "Spirit Of The Age""Damnation Alley""Fable Of A Failed Race""Quark Strangeness And Charm""Hassan I Sahba""The Forge Of Vulcan""Days Of The Underground""Iron D..
Quark-gluon plasma
A QGP is formed at the collision point of two relativistically accelerated gold ions in the center of the STAR detector at the relativistic heavy ion collider at the Brookhaven national laboratory. A quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a phase of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which exists at extremely ..
Quark-nova
A quark-nova is a type of nova that theoretically can occur when a neutron star spontaneously collapses to become a quark star. A quark star is formed from a neutron star through a process called quark de-confinement. It is in this process that produces the quark nova. The resultant star should hav..
Quarkonium
In particle physics, quarkonium (pl. quarkonia) designates a flavorless meson whose constituents are a quark and its own antiquark. Examples of quarkonia are the J/ψ (which is a charmonium, or charm quark/anti-charm quark state) and the Υ (a bottomonium, or bottom quark/anti-bottom quark..
Quarkscrew
Quarkscrew is a term that symbolizes the very good and the very bad about the information we all take for granted on the internet. Although there are several interpretations for the term, most of them scientific, it is primarily being used as a misspelling for the word 'Corkscrew'. As the two terms,..
QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is a page layout application for Mac OS X and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. The first version was released in 1987. XTensions technology, which allows developers to create custom software add-ons for Quark products, was introduced in 1989. QuarkXPress Passport is QuarkXPress with th..
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science was an educational computer game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS in early 1992. It was designed to teach scientific concepts to children. The game centered around Quarky and Quaysoo O'Gandi, two space "elfs" that we..
Quark (anthology series)
Quark was an anthology book series devoted to avant-garde science fiction and related material, edited by fiction-writer and critic Samuel Delany and poet and editor Marilyn Hacker; four volumes were published in 1970 and 1971. The editors, once married, were among the foremost homosexual activist/..
Quark (disambiguation)
Quark can refer to: quark, a subatomic particle"quark", a nonce word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wakequark (food), a soft cheeseQuark, Inc., a software manufacturer best known for the page layout software QuarkXPressQuark (Star Trek), a character from the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine..
Quark (food)
Polish twaróg Quark is a type of fresh acid-set cheese of Central European origin. Dictionaries usually translate it as curd cheese. It is white and unaged, similar to cream cheese, pot cheese or ricotta. It is made by letting lactic acid bacteria (sometimes also rennet) ferment milk, with t..
Quark (kernel)
The Quark kernel used in MorphOS is a microkernel designed to run totally virtualized computers, called "boxes" (see sandbox). Currently only one "Box" is available, the ABox, that lets users run old AmigaOS software compiled for MC680x0 processors. ..
Quark (magazine)
Quark was an American science magazine in the 1970s. ..
Quark (Star Trek)
Mean anomaly (M) Physical characteristics Dimensions Surface area Volume Mass Density (ρ) Surface gravity Escape velocity Rotation period Rotation velocity Obliquity Right ascensionof north pole Declination Absolute magnitude Albedo..
Quark (TV series)
Quark was an American science fiction Situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin that aired on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was canceled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the s..
Quark kent
Quark Kent (Giv Parvaneh) is an Australian-based/Iranian electronic music artist. He has been creating and releasing music since 1996 with 4 LP releases and several remixes under his belt. He also appears on several music compilations. He first appeard on the scene playing at Frigid night club, a..
Quark model
In physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks, ie, the quarks (and antiquarks) which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. These quantum numbers are labels identifying the hadrons, and are of two kinds. One set comes from the Poincare..
Quark Publishing System
The Quark Publishing System (better know under its acronym QPS) is an editorial system, mostly used by magazines but also found at newspapers, occasionally at book publishers, catalog (retail) companies, ad agencies and others. QPS® Classic is a cross-platform workgroup publishing solution tha..
Quark star
A strange star or quark star is a hypothetical type of star composed of strange matter, or quark matter. This is an ultra-dense phase of matter that is theorized to form inside particularly massive neutron stars. It is theorized that when the neutronium which makes up a neutron star is put under s..
Quarley
Quarley is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is about seven miles west of Andover and according to the 2001 census had a population of 161. External links [Quarley Village] ..
Quarndon
This article is about the village in Derbyshire. For the village of Quorndon see Quorn, Leicestershire. Quarndon is a linear village in the English county of Derbyshire. It is due north of, and essentially contiguous with, the City of Derby's suburb of Allestree. Formerly it was notable for its c..
Quarnford
Quarnford is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 244. The village is in the Peak District, roughly between Buxton and Leek. The village (as opposed to the parish) is known by the name "Fl..
Quarrel
For the James Bond character of the same name, click here Note: a quarrel may also mean an [[Wiktionary:Argument|argument]] or fight. A quarrel is the technical term for the most common head of a crossbow bolt, so called on account of its square shape (from the Latin quadrus -- "a square"). (Bolt..
Quarrel (James Bond)
Quarrel is a fisherman in the Caribbean. He is an ally to James Bond in the film Dr. No and is portrayed by John Kitzmiller. He also has a son Quarrel Jr. who appears in a later Bond film. Film Biography Although not shown in the film, Quarrel helps John Strangways get some rock samples from Cr..
Quarrel Jr.
In the James Bond film Live and Let Die, Quarrel Junior is a fisherman in the Caribbean. He is an ally to Bond, and is portrayed by Roy Stewart. He also has a father Quarrel who appears in a earlier Bond film. Film Biography When Bond and Rosie Carver need a boat to get closer to Dr. Kananga, Bo..
Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (French: querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) was a literary and artistic quarrel that heated up in the early 1690s and shook the Académie française. It opposed two sides: the Ancients (Anciens), led by Boileau, who supported the merits of the ancient ..
Quarrendon
Quarrendon is both the name of an ancient village on the outskirts of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and the name of a large housing estate that forms part of Aylesbury. Coming from the Old English Cweorndun the name means 'hill where mill stones are obtained'. There is evidence to suggest that the ..
Quarrendon Upper School
Quarrendon Upper School is a mixed, non-selective secondary school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 800 pupils. Currently plans are being made to shut the school down and make a ..
Quarries
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Quarries - (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (not found in Scripture) is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out..
Quarrington
Quarrington may refer to: Joel Quarrington Canadian double bassist (born 1955)Paul Quarrington Canadian novelist (born 1953)Cassop-cum-QuarringtonOld Quarrington, England This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you ..
Quarrington Hill
Quarrington Hill is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the north of Kelloe. ..
Quarry
This article is about rock quarries. For other places or things called quarry, see Quarry (disambiguation). A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry Coquina QuarrySixty feet below sea levelConway, South Carolina A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals..
Quarry, Newfoundland and Labrador
Quarry is an abandoned railway community that was located in the Gaff Topsails area of the province of Newfoundland, Canada. The community lies just north of Buchans and takes its name from the quarry established in the 1890's when the Newfoundland Railway was being built. Granite from this quarry ..
Quarry-Faced
In stone masonry, Quarry-Faced refers to stone with a rough surface straight from the quarry, and not altered (smoothed), e.g. with a chisel. ..
Quarrydale School
--> Quarrydale School is a comprehensive secondary school located in the ex-mining and textile community of Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The school educates students of ages 11–18, and has an average enrollment of 1,000 students. As of 2006, the head teacher is Mr. Craig ..
Quarryhill Botanic Garden
The Quarryhill Botanical Garden 61 acres (247,000 m²) is a research botanical garden housing one of the largest collections of temperate Asian plants in North America. Plantings began in 1990. It is located near Glen Ellen, California, USA in Sonoma Valley, and open to the public by appointment..
Quarryville, Pennsylvania
Quarryville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,994 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Solanco School District. Contents 1 General Information2 Geography3 Demographics4 History5 Local Services6 Notable natives7 ..
Quarry (disambiguation)
Quarry can refer to several things: Quarry, a type of open-pit mine, generally associated with the extraction of stone.*"Quarry concerts" or "quarry parties," an event taking place at former open-pit mines.The target of a chase, especially during a hunt.Quarry, Newfoundland and Labrador, an abando..
Quarry Bank
Quarry Bank is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Locally, the name is often pronounced, "Quarry Bonk". [link] Quarry Bank was an urban district of Staffordshire from 1894 to 1934, when it was added to the Brierley Hill urban district. This became pa..
Quarry Bank Mill
Quarry Bank Mill is an historic factory in Cheshire, England, one of the best preserved of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the Cotton Industry. Founded by Samuel Greg in 1784 in the village of Styal on the River Bollin. Its original iron water wheel was designed by Thomas Hewes and..
Quarry Bay
Nam Fung Sun Chuen, a private housing estate in Quarry Bay Quarry Bay (鰂魚涌; literally Crucian Carp Stream or River or 石礦灣 / 採石灣) is an area beneath Mount Parker in Eastern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The western portion of the area was also formerly known as Lai ..
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Quarry Bay School
Quarry Bay School is an English-using international school in Hong Kong. The school was opened in 1924 to educate the children of expatriate dockyard workers. It remained in Quarry Bay until the 1970s, briefly interrupted by World War 2 when it was forced to operate in the Stanley Internment Camp. I..
Quarry Hill
Quarry Hill is the name of several places in the world: Quarry Hill, Leeds, United KingdomQuarry Hill, Kowloon, Hong KongQuarry Hill Creative Center This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the sa..
Quarry Hill, Hong Kong
Quarry Hill is a hill near To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong where present-day Ho Man Tin (South) Estate is located. ..
Quarry Hill, Leeds
Quarry Hill in Leeds, United Kingdom is a small district to the east of Leeds city centre that is surrounded by the A61 and A64 roads and the Leeds - York / Hull railway. Between 1938 and 1978 Quarry Hill was home to what was at the time the largest social housing complex in the United Kingdom and..
Quarry Hill Creative Center
Quarry Hill Creative Center, in Rochester, Vermont, is Vermont's oldest alternative living group or community. Contents 1 History2 Creation of Quarry Hill3 Expansion4 Notes5 References History On April 10, 1946, Irving Fiske, (born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, ..
Quarry Steps, Durdham Down
Quarry Steps, Durdham Down (Grid reference ) is a 0.006 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the Durdham Down on the edge of the city of Bristol, Avon, notified in 1990. Source [English Nature citation sheet for the site] (accessed 13 July 2006) ..
Quarry Wood
Quarry Wood is a small wooded area in Preston Park, Eaglescliffe, in north eastern England. It was declared a local Nature Reserve on 20 February 2004 by Stockton Borough Council. The geography of the site is that of a large hole with banked sides leading to a small pond at the bottom and is densel..
Quarr Abbey
Quarr Abbey is an Abbey on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The medieval Quarr Abbey 1132-1902 The ancient Quarr Abbey was founded in 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon and fourth lord of the Isle of Wight. The name Quarr comes from `quarry', because there used to be a stone quarry ..
Quart
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. It is equal to two pints. There are several different units known as a pint, and so there are accordingly several different quarts. US liquid measure:* equal to two US liquid pints* equal to four US liquid cu..
Quartal
Quartal may refer to: Quartal harmony, music featuring chords built from fourthsQuaternary numeral system, a system for representing numbers based on powers of four This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to th..
Quartal and quintal harmony
Quartal harmonies and quintal harmonies are harmonies based on fourths and fifths rather than the traditional harmonies based on thirds. For example, G-C-F for fourths or G-D-A for fifths. Examples include Maurice Ravel's "Mouvt de Marche" section of "Laideronnette" from ''Ma Mère l'Oye": (Murph..
Quarta Ounce
Quarta Ounce, also known as Q.O., is a Chicago-based rap band. The members are Tweek Tweek, Lo-Dilla and Mac-T. Founded in 1994, Q.O. debuted their first independent L.P., "Smoke dis" with manager Robert "June, June" Jenkins and former member, Dregs M.C.. Though not a financial success, the L.P. wa..
Quarteira
Quarteira Quarteira is a Portuguese city and a parish, located in the municipality of Loulé. It has a population of 16,131 inhabitants and a total area of 37.78 Km². Quarteira is a city since May 13 of 1999. It is a coastal city and a popular tourist destination, with 2 Km of Blue Flag beach..
Quartell
Quartell is a small town and municipality in the fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Province of Valencia in eastern Spain. It is close to the sea, thirty five kilometers north of the provincal capital city Valencia, and ten kilometers north of Sagunto. External links [Ayuntamiento de Q..
Quarter
Quarter derives from the French meaning "4" or "¼" and may refer to: Quarter (U.S. coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollarQuarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollara one-fourth part of any measure, notably including:*one-fourth of an hour*one-fourth of a year, often ..
Quarter-comma meantone
Quarter-comma meantone was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this tuning the perfect fifth is tempered by one quarter of a syntonic comma in order to obtain just major thirds (5:4). It was described by Pietro Aron (also ..
Quarter-life crisis
The quarter-life crisis is a term, coined circa November 1965 in Toronto, by psychologist Elliott Jaques #redirect [[Template:Fact]], applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the ages of 21 - 29. The term is named by analogy with mid-..
Quarterback
NFL quarterback Peyton Manning. The quarterback is a position in the offensive backfield of American and Canadian football, directly behind players of the "line". He is generally the leader on the field, responsible for initiating play by receiving the snap of the ball from the center. For th..
Quarterback (arcade game)
Quarterback is a 2-player American football arcade game released by Leland in 1987. Series 1. Quarterback (1987)2. John Elway's Team Quarterback (1988)3. All American Football (1989) ..
Quarterback Attack
Quarterback Attack was the first and only quarterback only game for the Sega Saturn and 3DO. The only player you could control was the quarterback,and all you get for the defense was an FMV. Its lack of features and playability led to its ultimate downfall. Published by Digital Pictures ..
Quarterback kneel
In American football, a quarterback kneel, also called taking a knee, occurs when the quarterback immediately kneels to the ground after receiving the snap. It is primarily used to run the clock down, either at the end of the first half or the game itself, in order to preserve a lead or a win. Altho..
Quarterback Princess
Quarterback Princess is a 1983 fact-based drama by 20th Century Fox that chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who struggles against sexism and fights to play on her high school football team. Contents 1 Cast & Credits1.1 Actors1.2 Director1.3 Producer1.4&..
Quarterback sack
In American football and Canadian football, a quarterback sack occurs when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a forward pass. This often occurs if the opposing team's defensive line or linebackers are able to quickly get past blocking players of the offensiv..
Quarterback sneak
A quarterback sneak is a play in American football in which the quarterback, upon taking the center snap, dives ahead behind the offensive line. The advantages of this play are that there are no further ball exchanges beyond the center snap, and that the quarterback receives the ball almost at the ..
Quarterdeck Office Systems
Quarterdeck Office Systems, later Quarterdeck Corporation, was an American computer software company. It was incorporated in 1982. Their offices were initially located in Santa Monica, California and later in Marina Del Rey, California. In the 1990s they had a European office in Dublin, Ireland. The..
Quarterflash
Quarterflash was a pop-rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. The band was made up of lead singer and saxophonist Rindy Ross, her husband guitarist Marv Ross, guitarist Jack Charles, keyboardist Rick DiGiallonardo, bassist Rich Gooch and drummer Brian David Willis. Their original name was Se..
Quarterfoil
A quarterfoil is a design element, as in architecture, with four lobes or leaves, called foliations. Quarterfoil example 1 Quarterfoil example 2 ..
Quartering
Quartering may refer to: dividing into four parts:* For quartering as a punishment see Hanged, drawn and quartered.* For quartering of shields in heraldry see Quartering (heraldry).providing quarters (as in a place to stay):*The Quartering Acts required American civilians to provide quarters for Br..
Quartering (heraldry)
Quartering in heraldry is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into not more than four equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four equal parts, two above and t..
Quartering Act
Quartering Act is the name of at least two Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. Contents 1 Act of 17652 Act of 17743 Modern relevance4 External links Act of 1765 This first Act (citation 5 Geo. III c. 33) occurred on 24 March 1765, and provided that Great Britain would ho..
Quarterland
A Quarterland or Ceathramh (Scottish Gaelic) was a Scottish land measurement. It was used mainly in the west and north. It was supposed to be equivalent to eight fourpennylands. In Islay, a quarterland was equivalent to a quarter of an ounceland. Half of a quarterland would be an “ochdamh”, and..
Quarterly Essay
Quarterly Essay is a highbrow, relatively small-circulation Australian news magazine that straddles the border between magazines and non-fiction books. Printed in a book-like page size and using a single-column format, each issue features a single extended essay of at least 20,000 words, with an in..
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is a scholarly, refereed journal published quarterly by Transaction Periodicals Consortium and the Mises Institute. The QJAE was founded in 1998, but it is recognized as a continuation of the Review of Austrian Economics, which was founded by Murray R..
Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, or QJE, is an economics journal published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics. Its current editors are Robert J. Barro, Edward L. Glaeser and Lawrence F. Katz. The QJE is the oldest professional..
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is a Singapore literary journal founded by Toh Hsien Min in 2001. The journal is structured as a non-profit volunteer collective, and publishes poetry, short stories, essays, criticism and interviews, among others, from writers in Singapore and abroad. Besides T..
Quarterly Review
Quarterly Review was a review journal started by John Murray, the celebrated London publisher, in March 1809 (though it bore a title page date of February), in rivalry with the Edinburgh Review, which had been seven years in possession of the field, and was exerting, as he judged, an evil influence ..
Quartermain
Quartermain or Quartermaine may refer to: Contents 1 Real persons2 Fictional persons3 Motion Pictures4 Places Real persons Buck Quartermain, an American wrestler.Matthew Quartermaine, an American actor.Monica Quartermaine, an American actress.Leon Quartermaine, a British ac..
Quartermaine's Terms
Play by Simon Gray. Plot St John (pronounced 'Sinjon') Quartermaine is a teacher whose life is lived vicariously in the confines of a staffroom in a Cambridge school for teaching English to foreigners. Set in the 1960s, it deals with the concerns of seven teachers over several years and in partic..
Quartermain Mountains
Quartermain Mountains ([77°51′S 160°45′E]) is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 miles (32 km) long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular M..
Quartermaster
Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military individual which specializes in supplying and provisioning troops. It can also refer to a unit doing the same, or to a junior naval rank. The term was first coined in Germany as Quartiermeister and initially denoted a court official with the ..
Quartermaster Center and School
The Quartermaster Center and School (QMCS) is a subordinate command of the United States Army's Combined Arms Support Command and is located at Fort Lee, Virginia. Insignia Shoulder Sleeve Insignia. Description: On a buff lozenge shaped field with rounded points, 2 inches (5.08cm) in width an..
Quartermaster general
A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army. In the United States, the Quartermaster General is a general officer who is responsible for the Quartermaster Corps, the Quartermaster branch of the United States Army. The Quartermaster General does not command Q..
Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor
Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor (QMSI) is an appointment held by Warrant Officers Class 2 in the British Army's Army Physical Training Corps and by some in the Royal Engineers. ..
Quarternote
Quarternote, subtitled The Best of Odani Misako 1996-2000 is a compilation album by Japanese singer/pianist Misako Odani, released February 6, 2002 on the Universal label. Track listing 嘆きの雪 — 4:09自分 — 4:32STAY — 5:34永遠にねむる — 4:02見せかけ社会 ..
Quarters
See also Quarter. Part of the series onPopular drinking games ..
Quarterstaff
A quarterstaff is a Medieval English variant of the staff weapon, consisting of a long shaft of hardwood, sometimes with metal-reinforced tips. The name is frequently used incorrectly for the fighting staves of other cultures, such as the Japanese bo, Chinese gùn, or French bâton. Contents ..
Quarters of Luxembourg City
The Quarters of Luxembourg City (Luxembourgish: Quartierën, French: Quartiers, German: Stadtvierteln) are the smallest administrative division for local government in Luxembourg City, the capital and largest city in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. There are currently twenty-four quarters, covering ..
Quarters of Saint Lucia
|} The island of Saint Lucia is divided into 11 quarters: Anse-la-RayeCastriesChoiseulDauphinDenneryGros IsletLaborieMicoudPraslinSoufrièreVieux Fort Districts statistics District (Quarter) Land area (km²) Population (2001) Density (persons/km²) Anse-la-Raye 31 6,495 210 C..
Quarter (Canadian coin)
The quarter is a Canadian coin, valued at 25 cents or one-fourth of a Canadian dollar. It is a small, circular coin of silver colour. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official name for the coin is the 25 cent coin, but in practice the term quarter is nearly universal. In Canadian French,..
Quarter (United States coin)
A quarter is a coin worth one-fourth of a United States dollar, or 25 cents. The quarter has been produced since 1796, and is the largest coin in common circulation. It is sometimes referred to as two bits because two bits of a Spanish piece of eight coin, which was often used in the early years o..
Quarter Acre
In Australian and New Zealand English, a Quarter Acre is a term for a suburban plot of land. Traditionally, Australians and Kiwis aspire to own a 3- or 4-bedroom house or bungalow on a section of around a quarter of an acre. The land was frequently put to use with vegetable gardens, fruit trees, or ..
Quarter bells
Quarter bells are the bells that the clock mechanism strikes on each passing quarter of the hour. Often, as in the case of Big Ben, a different tune is played for each quarter. This enables people to be able to tell the time, without actually having to be within sight of the clock face. The quarter ..
Quarter Century Wireless Association
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. Quarter Century Wireless Ass..
Quarter days
In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, and rents and rates were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart. The English quarter days (also observed in Wales) are: Lady Day (March 25)Midsummer Day (J..
Quarter Eagle
The quarter eagle was a coin issued by the United States with a denomination of two hundred and fifty cents, or two dollars and fifty cents. Its name was derived from the US ten-dollar coin, which was called an "eagle". Note: It is a common misconception that "eagle"-based nomenclature for gold U.S..
Quarter farthing (British coin)
The quarter farthing was a British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853 (although proof coins were anomalously produced in 1868). It is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom. It was worth 1+⁄16 penny (0.0625d), or 1+⁄3840 p..
Quarter Florin
The Quarter Florin or Helm was an attempt by English king Edward III to produce a gold coinage suitable for use in Europe as well as in England (see also Florin or Double Leopard and Half Florin or Leopard). The quarter florin, based on contemporary European gold coins had a value of one shilling an..
Quarter guard
The quarter guard is the guard room in an Indian Army unit. The quarter guard is the main point of security arrangements for the army camp/garrison. The regimental colours, the armoury and the treasury would be kept in this building. In addition to this the quarter guard also has a lock up to hold s..
Quarter guinea
The quarter guinea was a British coin minted only in the years 1718 and 1762. As the name implies, it was valued at one-fourth of a guinea, which at that time was worth twenty-one shillings. The quarter guinea therefore was valued at five shillings and threepence. At the beginning of the reign of K..
Quarter Inch Cartridge
Quarter Inch Cartridge (or QIC) tape is a computer storage magnetic tape format used from the 1970s to the present. QIC is a linear tape format, and is frequently pronounced as quick or quick tape. Quarter-Inch cartridges: left 400MB, right 120MB. Contents 1 QIC1.1 Data Cartridge (..
Quarter Midget racing
Quarter Midget racing is a sport similar to Go-Karting. It is played by younger people, typically from age 5 to 16. Racing, which can be playful or competitive, is carried out in quarter-scale Midget cars. Tracks are typically banked ovals one-twentieth of a mile long (880 yards, 804 meters) and are..
Quarter mile
The Quarter Mile (402 meters, 440 yards, or 1,320 feet) is a distance generally used for Drag Racing two objects, and it an excellent way to compare the speed and acceleration of two objects. Although a quarter mile is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile tracks. T..
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town was a #3 country album for Emmylou Harris on the Billboard charts, with three charting singles: "To Daddy" (written by Dolly Parton) at #3, "Two More Bottles of Wine" at #1 (the third #1 of her career), and "Easy from Now On" (co-written by Carlene Carter) at #12. Al..
Quarter note
In music, a quarter note (American) or crotchet (Commonwealth) is played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note. Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem usually points upwards if it is below the middle line of the stave or downwards ..
Quarter panel
On an automobile, a quarter panel is a body panel that covers the section between the door and the hood (for the front quarter panels), or the door and the trunk (for the rear quarter panels). In some countries, for example the United Kingdom, the term is only used to refer to the rear panels. Th..
Quarter period
In mathematics, the quarter periods K(m) and iK′(m) are special functions that appear in the theory of elliptic functions. The quarter periods K and iK' are given by [K(m)=\int_0^ \frac}] and [iK'(m) = iK(1-m)] Note that when m is a real number, [0 \leq m \leq 1..
Quarter pipe
A Quarter pipe is a wooden construction used in extreme sports which resembles a quarter of the cross section of a pipe. It has a progressively steepening transition, which begins at the ground, and ends at a metal rail called the coping. Riders/ Skaters may use the ramp to launch themselves into th..
Quarter Pounder
A (or quarterpounder) is a hamburger made from approximately 1/4 pounds (pre-cook weight) of beef. It was introduced to McDonald's restaurants in the 1970s by Fremont's Mission McDonald's (so name because of its Spanish-themed architecture and proximity to Mission San Jose). This food item is..
Quarter Sessions
The Courts of Quarter Sessions or Quarter Sessions were periodic courts held in each county and county borough in England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Assize courts they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court of England and Wales. The Qu..
Quarter stick
Quarter stick is a slang term used to refer to the M-80 flashcracker. The term derives from the incorrect belief that an M-80 is equivalent in explosive power to 1/4 of a stick of dynamite. In fact, a classic M-80 contains three grams of flash powder, while a quarter of a stick of dynamite would con..
Quarter tense
Quarter tense (called in all other English speaking countries "ember days") is a uniquely Irish name for those days set aside in the western Christian church for prayer and fasting to sanctify the liturgical seasons. They are of very ancient and uncertain origin, though are generally believed to hav..
Quarter tone
A quarter tone is an interval half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which is half a whole tone. In equal temperament the quarter tone is 50 cents or 21/24 or 1.0293. In 24 tone equal temperament, or the quarter tone scale, it is the smallest step. In just intonation it is often ..
Quarter Video Graphics Array
A graphic which shows the resolution of QVGA compared to VGA. Click for actual size. The Quarter Video Graphics Array (also known as Quarter VGA or QVGA) is a popular term for a computer display with 320 × 240 resolution. QVGA displays are most often seen in mobile phones, PDAs and some..
Quartet
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. A quartet is a group of four identical or similar objects, or a grouping of four persons for a common purpose. Music In music, a quartet (French: quatuor, German: Quartett, Italian: quartetto, Spanish: cuarteto) is a method of instrumentation (or a medium),..
Quartet-X
Quartet X is a South Korean string quartet, that performs contemporary classical music, experimental music, classical music, and pop music. Quartet-X seeks to update the traditional image of a classical ensemble through innovative programming, stylish presentation, and performance in non-traditional..
Quarteto em Cy
Quarteto em Cy is a quartet of Salvadorean sisters from the Tropicalia musical movement in Brazil. They first became known for their collaborations with Vinicius de Moraes, and later worked with a number of other composers from the movement. They are Cybele, Cylene, Cynara, and Cyva. ..
Quartette (band)
Quartette is a Canadian country-folk group featuring Cindy Church, Caitlyn Hanford, Gwen Swick, and Sylvia Tyson, as well as one former member, Colleen Peterson, deceased. All four current members are accomplished solo performers, but their collaboration on Quartette's four CDs (as of April 2006) ha..
Quartetto Cetra
Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during 1940s. The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and Enrico..
Quartetto Egie
Quartetto Egie was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during 1940s. It formed in Rome in 1940. The four singers were Tata Giacobetti, Iacopo Jacomelli, Enrico Gentile e Enrico De Angelis. The name EGIE came from their initials. Quartetto Egie made their debut on 27 May 1940 at the Valle T..
Quartetto Gelato
Quartetto Gelato is a Canadian new classical group currently composed of Cynthia Steljes, Peter DeSotto, Alexander Sevastian, and Elinor Frey based in Toronto, Ontario. Debuting in 1994 with founding members Cynthia Steljes, Peter DeSotto, George Meanwell, and Claudio Vena, Quartetto Gelato quick..
Quartetto Ritmo
Quartetto Ritmo was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during 1940s. The group originated from the previous Quartetto Egie, after Iacopo Jacomelli left the formation. Virgilio Savona replaced him and joined Tata Giacobetti, Enrico Gentile and Enrico De Angelis to form the new Quartetto Ritm..
Quartettsatz (Schubert)
The Quartettsatz (Movement for String Quartet) in C minor, D. 703 was composed by Franz Schubert in December 1820. It represents the first movement, the Allegro assai, of a Twelfth String Quartet which Schubert never completed. In addition to the opening movement, Schubert also managed to write th..
Quartet (1981 film)
Credit Directed by James IvoryProduced by Ismail Merchant and Jean-Pierre Mahot de la QuerantonnaisScreenply by Ruth Prawer JhabvalaBased on the novel by Jean RhysMusic by Richard RobbinsMusic arranged by Luther HendersonDirector of photography Pierre LhommeProduction Design Jean-Jacques CaziotCostu..
Quartet (disambiguation)
Quartet can refer to: Quartet, a musical group of four peopleQuartet (arcade game), an arcade game by SegaQuartet (play), a play by Ronald HarwoodQuartet on the Middle East, four nations involved in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dict..
Quartet (play)
Quartet is a play by British playwright Ronald Harwood about aging opera singers. ..
Quartet de Barcelona
Contents 1 Biography2 Invited artists3 Repertoire and discography4 References Biography Quartet de Barcelona (Barcelona String Quartet): Marc Armengol, Edurne Vila, Violin; Ulrike Janssen, Viola; Sergi Boadella, Cello. The "Quartet de Barcelona" was created and made its debut..
Quartet in Autumn
Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was Pym's comeback novel after fifteen years of publishing rejections, following a successful record as a novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s. As a novel, it represents a departure..
Quartet on the Middle East
The Quartet on the Middle East, sometimes called the Diplomatic Quartet or simply the Quartet, is a foursome of nations and international and supranational entities involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank..
Quarth
This article is in need of improvement. Quarth is a hybrid puzzle game/shoot 'em up developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game, sold as Block Hole outside Japan. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX (with a built-in SCC chip), Famicom/NES,..
Quartic
In mathematics and elsewhere, the adjective quartic means fourth order, such as the function [x^4]. A quartic number is a number which equals the fourth power of an integer. See also quartic equationquartic function ..
Quartic equation
In mathematics, a quartic equation is the result of setting a quartic function equal to zero. An example of a quartic equation is the equation [2x^4+4x^3-26x^2-28x+48=0;] the general form is [a_0x^4+a_1x^3+a_2x^2+a_3x+a_4=0,] where [a_0\ne 0]. Contents 1 Hist..
Quartic function
Polynomial of degree 4: f(x) = (x+4)(x+1)(x-1)(x-3)/14+0.5 A quartic function is a function of the form [f(x)=ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e] with nonzero a; or in other words, a polynomial function with a degree of four. Such a function is sometimes called a biquadratic function, but the la..
Quartic graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a quartic graph is a graph where all vertices have degree 4. In other words a quartic graph is a 4-regular graph. A biquartic graph is a cubic bipartite graph. It is an open conjecture that all quartic graphs have an even number of Hamiltonian circuits...
Quartic interaction
In quantum field theory, a quartic interaction is a theory about a scalar field φ which contains an interaction term [\phi^4], and is considered by many teachers and students to be simplest example of interacting fields. This theory consists of subtracting a [\frac \phi^4] ..
Quartic plane curve
A quartic plane curve is a plane curve of the fourth degree. Examples Ampersand curveBean curveBicuspid curveBow curveCrooked egg curveCruciform curveKlein quarticTrott curve ..
Quartiere
A quartiere (plural: quartieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns. The word is from quarto, or fourth, and is thus properly used only for towns divided into four neighborhoods; from it is derived the English word "quarter" to mean a neighborhood. Other Italian towns with other than four off..
Quartieri Spagnoli
Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarters) is a part of the city of Naples in Italy. It is a poor area, more so than the city overall, which is suffering from high unemployment. Quartieri Spagnoli is an area where the Camorra has influence. ..
Quartier international de Montréal
The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreal's International District is an area of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003. While several of the new structures were controversial during constru..
Quartier Latin
The Quartier Latin (Latin Quarter) is an area in the 5th arrondissement and parts of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, on the left bank (south side) of the Seine, around the Sorbonne University. The name derives from the Latin language, which was widely spoken in the Middle Ages in and aroun..
Quartier Latin (Montreal)
The Quartier Latin is an area in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, surrounding UQAM and lower Saint-Denis Street, between downtown and the Village gai. It is known for its theatres, artistic atmosphere, cafés, and boutiques. It owes its name, a reference to the Quartier Latin in Paris, to..
Quartier Pigalle
A typical building in Boulevard de Clichy Pigalle is an area in Paris, France around Place Pigalle (a plaza) on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements, named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785). The area is famous for being a touristic red-light district, wi..
Quartile
In descriptive statistics, a quartile is any of the three values which divide the sorted data set into four equal parts, so that each part represents 1/4th of the sample or population. Thus: first quartile (designated Q1) = lower quartile = cuts off lowest 25% of data = 25th percentilesecond quarti..
Quartinus
Quartinus (d. 235) was a Roman usurper. After the death of Alexander Severus and the usurpation of Maximinus a company of archers from Osrhoene, in Mesopotamia, proclaimed Quartinus, a former provincial governor and friend of Alexander, emperor, purportedly against his own will. Those archers were..
Quarto
Quarto could refer to: The book size which results when four leaves of the book are created from a standard size sheet of paper, a term used in bookbinding and publishing. Each leaf is usually printed on each side, so this creates a signature of 8 printed pages in total. In modern common usage, a q..
Quartodecimanism
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Quarto (board game)
Quarto Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Blaise Müller. It is played on a 4×4 board. There are 16 pieces, each of which has four attributes: large or small;red or blue (or some other pair of colors, such as light or dark stained wood);square or circle;with or without ..
Quartus
Quartus (Latin "fourth") was a Corinthian Christian who sent messages to friends in Rome through Paul of Tarsus. He is mentioned in Rom. 16:23. This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. ..
Quartu Sant'Elena
Quartu Sant'Elena is a city in the Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It is the third biggest city of Sardinia with a population of 68,040 and an area of 96.28 km². External links [Official website] Sardinia · Communes of the province of Cagliari Armungia | Assemini |..
Quartz
For other senses of this word, see quartz (disambiguation). Quartz General Category Mineral Chemical formula (or Composition) Silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) Identification Color Clear (if no impurities); also see Varieties Crystal habit 6-sided prism ending in 6-sided pyramid (typical..
Quartz-dolerite
An intrusive rock, similar to dolerite, but with an excess of quartz. Dolerite is similar in composition to basalt, which is eruptive (from volcanoes), and gabbro, which is plutonic. The differing crystal sizes are due to the different rate of cooling, basalt cools quickly and has a very fine struct..
Quartz-porphyry
Quartz-porphyry, in petrology, is the name given to a group of hemi-crystalline acid rocks containing porphyritic crystals of quartz in a more fine-grained matrix which is usually of micro-crystalline or felsitic structure. In the hand specimens the quartz appears as small rounded, clear, greyish, v..
Quartzarenite
A "Quartzarenite" is a sedimentary rock comprised of >95% quartz. Quartz is a very weathering resistant mineral and accumulates into sediment as weathering and erosion proceeds. Quartzarenites are therefore often rocks that form through recycling of sedimentary deposits and are regarded as a mature ..
Quartzite
Quartzite Quartzite is a hard, metamorphic rock which was originally sandstone. Through heating and pressure usually related to tectonic compression within orogenic belts, the original quartz sand grains and quartz silica cement were fused into one. Pure quartzite is usually white to grey. Q..
Quartzsite, Arizona
Quartzsite is a town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 3,354 at the 2000 census. Quartzsite is the final resting place of Hi Jolly (Hadji Ali), a Syrian camel driver who took part in the experimental US Camel Corps. Geography Quartzsite is located at [33°39′54�..
Quartz (dance music act)
Quartz are the Swedish dance production duo of Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel. They are well known for their collaboration with Clubland on "Let's Get Busy" which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1990. See also List of number-one dance hits (United States)List ..
Quartz (disambiguation)
Quartz is a common mineral Quartz may also mean: Quartz (band), a heavy metal band from EnglandQuartz (graphics layer), the graphics-rendering technology used in Mac OS XQuartz Enterprise Job Scheduler (software), Open Source Software project for job scheduling in Java/JEE.Quartz (cryptography), th..
Quartz (graphics layer)
Quartz is the marketing name of the graphics layer of the Mac OS X operating system. Quartz is part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz directly supports Aqua by displaying two-dimensional graphics to create the user interface, including on-the-fly rendering and anti-aliasing. Text can be render..
Quartz 2D
Quartz 2D is the primary graphics library in Mac OS X. It supersedes QuickDraw, which was used in earlier versions of the Mac OS, now known as "Classic". Quartz 2D is based on version 1.4 of the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF – a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, fo..
Quartz clock
A quartz clock A quartz clock is a timepiece that uses an electronic oscillator which is made up by a quartz crystal to keep precise time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency. Usually some form of digital logic counts the cycles of this signal and provides a nu..
Quartz Composer
Quartz Composer is a node based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" for processing and rendering graphical data. Quartz Composer document (.qtz) Quartz Composer uses OpenGL, Core Image, Core Video, and other technologie..
Quartz Compositor
Quartz Compositor is the windowing system that is responsible for the user interface in Mac OS X. On a Mac OS X system, the Quartz Compositor can be seen in a process list as Window Manager or, in more recent versions, WindowServer. Quartz Compositor performs two main functions: maintaining and c..
Quartz crystal microbalance
A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measures mass by measuring the change in frequency of a piezoelectric quartz crystal when it is disturbed by the addition of a small mass such as a virus or any other tiny object intended to be measured. It can work under vacuum or liquid environment thus making ..
Quartz Hill, California
Quartz Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, USA. The population was 9,890 at the 2000 census. The name is also shared with the neighboring district areas of its border cities, Palmdale, and Lancaster. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Genera..
Quartz Hill High School
Quartz Hill High School Name Quartz Hill High School Address 6040 West Avenue L Location Quartz Hill, California Established 1964 Community Suburban Type Public Principal Mark Bryant Grades 9 to 12 Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges Mascot The Rebel Col..
Quartz latite
A quartz latite is a latite with a phenocryst modal composition containing 5-20% quartz. Above 20% quartz, the rock would be classified as a rhyolite. ..
Quartz monzonite
Quartz monzonite is a felsic igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. The plagioclase is typically intermediate to sodic in composition, andesine to oligoclase. Quartz is present in significant amounts. Biotite and/or hornblende constitute the ..
Quartz Mountain Christian Camp
Quartz Mountain Christian Camp, more often called QMCC, is a Christian camp located near Lone Wolf, OK of the United States. Its purpose is to provide its campers with a place away from worldly things. Campers enjoy activities such as singing, bible lessons, hiking, swimming, sports, crafts, and ..
Quartz Valley Indian Community
The Quartz Valley Indian Community is a federal reservation in Siskiyou County, California. It consists of Klamath, Karuk, and Shasta Indians. The community area is about 174 acres and numbers around 150. ..