English Words: Q

The process of making something square; squaring.

Happening every four years.

A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.

A polygon with four sides.

A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.

A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000⁴): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.

Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.

A four-footed or four-legged animal.

Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.

plural of quad

A swampy, soggy area of ground.

An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.

To waste away; to fade, to wither.

plural of quail

Of a person: cunning, crafty.

A trembling or shaking.

A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.

plural of quake

The action of the verb quake.

Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.

Clipping of qualifying.

plural of quale

The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.

plural of qualification

Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

verbal noun of qualify

Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.

In a qualitative manner.

plural of quality

Level of excellence.

A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.

Quantitative analysis or research.

Capable of being quantified.

The act of quantifying.

Measured.

A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.

To assign a quantity to.

Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.

In a quantitative manner.

plural of quantity

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.

The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values

simple past and past participle of quantize

The total amount of something; quantity.

A period of 40 days, particularly

present participle and gerund of quarantine

In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.