English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 56 of 58
A select body of (usually eminent) justices of the peace, every member of which had to be present to constitute a deciding body; a member of this body. Later more generally: all justices collectively.
A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.
The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
The practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
Emphasizes the following (or sometimes preceding) word or phrase for irony, or marks it as not the normal sense of the term.
The number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
A group obtained from a larger group by aggregating elements via an equivalence relation that preserves group structure.
A surjective, continuous function from one topological space to another one, such that the latter one's topology has the property that if the inverse image (under the said function) of some subset of it is open in the function's domain, then the subset is open in the target space.
For a given ring R and ideal I contained in R, another ring, denoted R / I, whose elements are the cosets of I in R.
A space obtained from another by identification of points that are equivalent to one another in some equivalence relation.
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 56. 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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