What is "q"

Q \Q\ (k[=u]), the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k[=u]) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Ph[oe]nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian. [1913 Webster] Etymologically, q or qu is most nearly related to a (ch, tch), p, q, and wh; as in cud, quid, L. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. ?, whence E. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. what; L. aquila, E. eaqle; E. kitchen, OE. kichene, AS. cycene, L. coquina.

16th letter of the classical Roman alphabet, from the Phoenician equivalent of Hebrew koph, qoph, which was used for the more guttural of the two "k" sounds in Semitic.\n

\nThe letter existed in Greek, but was little used and not alphabetized; the stereotypical connection with -u- began in Latin. Anglo-Saxon scribes adopted the habit at first, but later used spellings with cw- or cu-. The qu- pattern returned to English with the Norman Conquest and had displaced cw- by c.1300. In some spelling variants of late Middle English, quh- also took work from wh-, especially in Scottish and northern dialects, for example Gavin Douglas, Provost of St. Giles, in his vernacular "Aeneid" of 1513:\n\nLyk as the rois in June with hir sueit smell\n
The marygulde or dasy doith excell.\n
Quhy suld I than, with dull forhede and vane,\n
With ruide engine and barrand emptive brane,\n
With bad harsk speche and lewit barbour tong,\n
Presume to write quhar thi sueit bell is rong,\n
Or contirfait sa precious wourdis deir?\n\nScholars use -q- alone to transliterate Semitic koph (as in Quran, Qatar, Iraq ). In Christian theology, Q has been used since 1901 to signify the hypothetical source of passages shared by Matthew and Luke, but not in Mark; in this sense probably it is an abbreviation of German Quelle "source."

Etymology 1 letter (Latn-def en letter 17 cue) num. (Latn-def en ordinal 17 cue) Etymology 2

n. 1 (context sports English) conditional qualification 2 question

Q ( named cue ) is the 17th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Q is a fictional character in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, as well as in related media. In all of these programs, he is portrayed by John de Lancie. Q is a being who is unconstrained by, and indeed possesses power over, normal human notions of time, space, and even reality itself – his fellow Q and he are said to be omnipotent, and he is continually evasive regarding his motivations. The name "Q" also applies to all other individuals of the Q Continuum – an alternate dimension accessible to only the Q and their guests. The true nature of the realm is said to be beyond the comprehension of "lesser beings" such as humans, therefore it is shown to humans only in ways they can understand.

Beginning with the pilot episode " Encounter at Farpoint" of The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry between Jean-Luc Picard and himself. He serves as a major antagonist throughout The Next Generation, playing a pivotal role in both the first and final episodes. Q is initially presented as a cosmic force judging humanity to see if it is becoming a brutal threat to the universe, but as the series progresses, his role morphs more into one of a teacher to Picard and the human race generally – albeit often in seemingly destructive ways and subject to his own amusement. Other times, notably during " Deja Q" and Voyager, Q appears to the crew seeking assistance.

Gene Roddenberry chose the letter "Q" in honor of his friend, Janet Quarton.

Q is a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelizations. Q (standing for Quartermaster as well as a reference to the deceptive Q-ships), like M, is a job title rather than a name. He is the head of Q Branch (or later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service.

Q has appeared in 21 of the 24 Eon Productions James Bond films, the exceptions being Live and Let Die, the 2006 Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. The character was also featured in both non-Eon Bond films, the 1967 Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.

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

Q (also known as The Winged Serpent and as Q – The Winged Serpent) is a 1982 fantasy- horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree.

Q is a fixed point number format where the number of fractional bits (and optionally the number of integer bits) is specified. For example, a Q15 number has 15 fractional bits; a Q1.14 number has 1 integer bit and 14 fractional bits. Q format is often used in hardware that does not have a floating-point unit and in applications that require constant resolution.

"Q" is a single released in 1990/1991 by Mental Cube (better known as Future Sound of London). It is a widely respected dance classic among DJ's and has a distinctive bleeping, electronica feel reminiscent of work by Orbital.

Q (short for equational programming language) is an interpreted, interactive functional programming language created by Albert Gräf at the University of Mainz in Germany. Q programs are just collections of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in a symbolic fashion. Q has many similarities with other modern functional programming languages like Haskell and ML, but is based on general term rewriting (a method of computation also used by the Mathematica computer algebra system) instead of the lambda calculus.

Despite its conceptual simplicity, Q is a full-featured functional programming language with a modern syntax, currying, dynamic typing using an object-oriented type system, exception handling, POSIX multithreading, a comprehensive standard library, and an interface to the C programming language. Q is an impure functional language (i.e., operations with side-effects are permitted) with a default eager evaluation strategy; "special forms" can be used to implement data structures and operations featuring lazy evaluation. Q has been ported to a variety of operating systems, including BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Microsoft Windows. The interpreter is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Various add-on modules are provided for interfacing, e.g., to GNU Octave, OpenDX ( IBM's scientific visualization software), Tcl/ Tk and ODBC. A graph editor and library is also available. This turns the language into a practical tool for scientific and other advanced applications. Q also comes with an extensive system interface (though not as comprehensive as the facilities provided by other scripting languages such as Perl and Python). Moreover, computer music applications are supported via portable interfaces for MIDI and digital audio programming.

Q has been succeeded by Pure.

The Q Broadway Express is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored since it uses the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan. On weekdays, the Q operates between Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, Queens and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, running express south of 34th Street – Herald Square, crossing over the Manhattan Bridge south side, and serving all stops elsewhere. It short turns at 57th Street – Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on weekends and nights. The Q skips 49th Street on weekends, and serves all stops in Manhattan during nights.

The Q will be rerouted at all times to 96th Street on the IND Second Avenue Line in December 2016.

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

Q was founded in 1986 by Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, who were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology. Q was first published by the EMAP media group in October 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled "The modern guide to music and more". Originally it was to be called Cue (as in the sense of cueing a record, ready to play), but the name was changed so that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Qs 200th edition, is that a single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands.

In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer magazine titles, including Q, to the Bauer Media Group.

Q is the eighth studio album released by Mr. Children on September 27, 2000.

Since the beginning of their success in 1994, "Q" was the first album not to reach the #1 position because Ayumi Hamasaki outsold them by gapping 1 million copies in first week on the Oricon chart. It was also their lowest selling album since their first successful album, Atomic Heart.

Q or Q–meieriene is a private Norwegian dairy owned by the Kavli Trust. It was founded in 2000, and consists of two dairies, namely Jæren Gårdsmeieri and Gausdalmeieriet. The two dairies process milk from about 500 farms, totaling 170,000 litres of milk daily (2006). Processed products include milk, chocolate, yogurt, sour cream, cream and juice.

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Q was a disco group formed in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA. They released an album on Epic Records entitled Dancin' Man in 1977, which peaked at #140 on the Billboard 200. The group featured two members from Jaggerz, a hit making group from the early 70's. The title track from this album was released as a single and hit #23 on the US single charts that same year. The B side was entitled "Love Pollution." In the UK, though not a national hit, in London the song reached number 8 on Capital Radio's 'Capital Countdown' Top 40 in May 1977.

Q is a novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 1999. The novel is set in Europe during the 16th century, and deals with Protestant reformation movements.

"Luther Blissett" was a nom de plume for four Italian authors (Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca Di Meo) who were part of the "Luther Blissett Project", which ended in 1999. They now write under the name Wu Ming.

The novel has been translated into Danish, Dutch, English (British and American), French, German, Greek, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Basque, Czech, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish and Serbian. All of the editions keep the original copyright statement, which allows for non-commercial reproduction of the book.

Q (formerly QTV, standing for Quality TeleVision) was a television network in the Philippines run by GMA Network Inc. through Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, Inc. The network primarily aired lifestyle programs and dramas particularly aimed toward women. Its flagship station was DZOE-TV, which GMA ran as part of a lease with its owner, ZOE Broadcasting Network (who also aired programming on Q's schedule as part of the agreement, which also granted it access to technical resources from GMA).

On February 20, 2011, Q was discontinued in preparation for the launch of a new secondary network, GMA News TV.

Q is a free emulator software that runs on Mac OS X, including OS X on PowerPC. Q is Mike Kronenberg's port of the open source and generic processor emulator QEMU. Q uses Cocoa and other Apple technologies, such as Core Image and Core Audio, to achieve its emulation. Q can be used to run Windows, or any other operating system based on the x86 architecture, on the Macintosh.

Q is available as a Universal Binary and, as such, can run on Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh systems. However, some target guest architectures are unsupported on Lion (due to the removal of Rosetta) such as SPARC, MIPS, ARM and x86_64 since the softmmus are PowerPC only binaries.

Unlike QEMU, which is a command-line application, Q has a native graphical interface for managing and configuring virtual machines.

Q was a small American techno band, formed in 1982 by Jon St. James and Stacey Swain. Ross Wood was also a group member, and John Van Tongeren was involved as well. The group only had two releases: a 7" single of their song "Playback" on Cocteau Records, and a four-track EP released almost exclusively to college radio stations that has become known among fans as The Q EP. Only 1,000 copies were printed of the EP, and it is considered highly collectable.

Swain and St. James (along with Van Tongeren) formed SSQ shortly after the release of Q's EP, and they went on to release one album, Playback, as well as a couple of singles over the next two years.

The same lineup of musicians, with Swain and St. James still at the core, would eventually achieve commercial success under the name Stacey Q.

In cryptography, Q is a block cipher invented by Leslie McBride. It was submitted to the NESSIE project, but was not selected.

The algorithm uses a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits. It operates on blocks of 128 bits using a substitution-permutation network structure. There are 8 rounds for a 128-bit key and 9 rounds for a longer key. Q uses S-boxes adapted from Rijndael (also known as AES) and Serpent. It combines the nonlinear operations from these ciphers, but leaves out all the linear transformations except the permutation. Q also uses a constant derived from the golden ratio as a source of " nothing up my sleeve numbers".

Q is vulnerable to linear cryptanalysis; Keliher, Meijer, and Tavares have an attack that succeeds with 98.4% probability using 2 known plaintexts.

Q is a proprietary array processing language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems. The language serves as the query language for kdb+, a disk based and in-memory, column-based database. kdb+ is based upon K, a terse variant of APL. Q is a thin wrapper around K, providing a more readable, English-like interface.

Q is a 3D engine / tech development platform / interoperability standard developed by the London-based developer Qube Software.

Q (styled q) is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International. The program mainly features interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, though subjects and interviewees also deal with broader cultural topics such as their social, political and business aspects, as well as weekly panels on sports and media issues on Mondays and Fridays respectively.

Though not the highest-rated show on CBC Radio One ( The Current and As It Happens hold that distinction), Q is the highest rated show in its timeslot in CBC history, surpassing even Peter Gzowski who previously hosted the second hour of Morningside during the slot. The show is also regarded as standing out in CBC Radio One's schedule through attracting a younger, more socially media adept audience than other CBC Radio programming.

Q launched in April 2007 and was hosted by Jian Ghomeshi until October 2014.

Shad was chosen by the CBC in March 2015 as Qs new permanent host. His official debut as host was April 20. The show was also re-branded as q at the same time. In August 2016, the CBC announced that Shad will be replaced as host by Tom Power, formerly the host of Radio 2 Morning, in the fall.

Q is a Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation package which, unlike other MD codes, has specialized since its conception (Marelius et al. 1998) on three specific types of free energy calculations. These calculations are based on the Empirical Valence Bond (EVB) approach, the Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) method, and the Linear Interaction Energy (LIE) method.

The three methods that the program specializes on can return quantitative calculations of the energetic balance which occurs in proteins and nucleic acids. It can provide insight into key problems in biochemistry such as, energetic details on parts of the translation mechanism in mitochondrial ribosomes (Lind et al. 2013), or details in enzymatic reactions (Mones et al. 2013) among others.

The program is similar to gromacs in the sense that it's force-field agnostic, meaning that it does not provide a force-field itself, but it can rather use common force-fields such as CHARMM, AMBER, OPLS, and GROMOS.

The software provides one main utility for molecular dynamics called qdyn, and various subprograms such as qprep (to prepare input files from X-ray coordinates), qfep (to process MD calculations for FEP) and others.