English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 25 of 58
A corporate accounting procedure in which recapitalization is achieved by the elimination of the existing deficit and the establishment of a new earned surplus account for future earnings only.
An object in a specific type of coorbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet, causing it to stay close to the planet over many orbital periods, despite not being a true satellite.
Seemingly scientific, especially by using the language but not the methods or rigour of science.
An unusual tort action on the basis of a legal doctrine that some legal duty exists which cannot be classified strictly as negligence in a personal duty resulting in a tort, nor as a contractual duty resulting in a breach of contract, but rather some other kind of duty recognizable by the law.
Belonging or relating to a generalization of the class of real analytic functions based upon the fact that, if f is an analytic function on an interval [a,b] ⊂ R, and at some point f and all of its derivatives are zero, then f is identically zero on all of [a,b].
Describing a system, particle etc., that has both a closed and an open boundary condition
A Jordan curve in the complex plane that is the image of a circle under a quasiconformal mapping of the plane onto itself.
Describing an open-wire power transmission cable that has shielding layers above and below it
Belonging to a generalization of coherent sheaves, including the locally free sheaves of infinite rank.
said of a function, if the inverse image of any set of the form (a,∞) for that function is a convex set.
said of a function, if the inverse image of any set of the form (-∞,a) for that function is a convex set.
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 25. 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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