English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 19 of 58
The amount of the last ingredient in a recipe or prescription required to make it up to the required quantity of a mixture.
A movement to promote the constant tracking of one's physical activity, diet, and other personal metrics in order to gain insights for self-improvement; the practice itself.
One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.
To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.
A monetary policy in which the central bank increases the money supply in the banking system, as by purchasing bonds from banks.
A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
Synonym of valence (“the combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.”).
The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values
An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response
A notional place representing the domain of quants (quantitative analysts) and their work.
Excessive reliance on or use of facts and figures that can be derived using statistical or mathematical procedures.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter Q contains 2,880 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 58 pages, and you are currently viewing page 19. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
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