• Electric charge.

nounQs, Q's

• 1The seventeenth letter of the alphabet.

  ‘I encountered some difficulty when required to pronounce the letter Q.’

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  • ‘The Q virus infects the letter Q on your machine, causing potential damage to any document with a Q in it.’
  • ‘The glossy alabaster white embossment was the silhouette of a horse with the letter Q on its flanks.’

  1. 1.1Denoting the next after P in a set of items, categories, etc.
     ‘Each element of the set Q occurs exactly once in each row and each column of the table.’
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     • ‘All of the currently considered stocks in group q remain in the portfolio.’

abbreviation

• 1Quarter (used to refer to a specified quarter of the financial year)

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  • ‘we expect to have an exceptional Q4’

• 2Queen (used especially in describing card games and recording moves in chess)

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  • ‘17 Qb4’

• 3Question.

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  • ‘Q: What's the problem? A: I don't feel well’

• 4Theology
  Denoting the hypothetical source of the passages shared by the gospels of Matthew and Luke, but not found in Mark.