AQ, Aq, aQ, or aq may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
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A. Q. Shipley (Allan Quay Shipley, born 1986), known as AQ, American former football center and coach
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A-Q (born 1986), Nigerian rapper
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AQ Interactive
AQ Interactive, Inc. was a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher. AQ stands for Artistic Quality. It was the parent company of the developers Artoon, Cavia (company), Cavia and feelplus, and most recently the U.S. pu ...
, a Japanese video game developer
* ''
AdventureQuest'', a 2002 Web-based game
* ''
Australian Quarterly
''Australian Quarterly'' is Australia's longest running political science journal, established in 1929. Its original focus on science policy quickly broadened to encompass a wide range of political, economic, and social issues. From 1929 to mid-1 ...
'', a journal for political science
* Ah Q or A Q, a character in 1921 novella ''
The True Story of Ah Q
''The True Story of Ah Q'' is an episodic novella written by Lu Xun using third-person narration perspective, first published as a serial between December 4, 1921 and February 12, 1922. It was later included in his first short story collectio ...
''
* Al-Qatala, a fictional group in the ''
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' video game series
Businesses and organizations
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9 Air
9 Air () is a Chinese low-cost airline headquartered in Baiyun, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. 9 Air was created as a subsidiary of Juneyao Air in 2014.*
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*Former address: Address in Chinese "广东省广州市白云区人和镇方华公路自 ...
, China (IATA:
AQ
)
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Acquity Group, US (NYSE:
AQ
)
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Alliance Quebec
Alliance Quebec (AQ) was a group formed in 1982 to lobby on behalf of English-speaking Quebecers in the province of Quebec, Canada. It began as an umbrella group of many English-speaking organizations and institutions in the province, with approxim ...
, Canada
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Aloha Airlines
Aloha Airlines was an airline in the United States that operated passenger flights from 1946 until 2008. It was headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, operating from its hub at Honolulu International Airport (now Daniel K. Inouye International Air ...
, a defunct US airline (IATA:
AQ
)
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Al-Qaeda
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, an Islamist militant group
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Al-Quds Force, a Iran special forces
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Automatic Qualifying conference
The power conferences are the most prominent athletic conferences in college football in the United States. They are part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, the highest level o ...
, in North American college sports
Chemistry
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8-Aminoquinoline (AQ), a heterocyclic bidentate ligand
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Anthraquinone
Anthraquinone, also called anthracenedione or dioxoanthracene, is an aromatic hydrocarbon, aromatic organic compound with formula . Several isomers exist but these terms usually refer to 9,10-anthraquinone (IUPAC: 9,10-dioxoanthracene) wherein th ...
(AQ), an aromatic organic compound
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Aqueous solution
An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water. It is mostly shown in chemical equations by appending (aq) to the relevant chemical formula. For example, a solution of table salt, also known as sodium chloride (NaCl), in water ...
(aq), dissolved in water
Computing and telephony
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.aq, the Internet domain for Antarctica
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Adaptive quantization
Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) is a variant of differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) that varies the size of the quantization step, to allow further reduction of the required data bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise ratio ...
, a quantization process that provides efficient compression
* Oracle Advanced Queuing, a message provider used in the software products of the Oracle Corporation
Places
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Ak, Buin Zahra, also spelled Aq, a village in Iran
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Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
(ISO 3166:
AQ
)
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Academic Quadrangle
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...
, at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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American Samoa
American Samoa is an Territories of the United States, unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. Centered on , it is southeast of the island count ...
(DIA 65-18 / FIPS PUB 10-4:
AQ
)
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Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a Sovereign state, sovereign archipelagic country composed of Antigua, Barbuda, and List of islands of Antigua and Barbuda, numerous other small islands. Antigua and Barbuda has a total area of 440 km2 (170 sq mi), ...
, LOC MARC code
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L'Aquila
L'Aquila ( ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy. It is the capital city of the Province of L'Aquila and the Abruzzo region in Italy. , it has a population of 69,902. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the A ...
, a province of Italy
Psychology
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Attribution questionnaire
The Attribution Questionnaire (AQ) is a 27-item self-report assessment tool designed to measure public stigma towards people with mental illnesses. It assesses emotional reaction and discriminatory responses based on answers to a hypothetic ...
, a tool to assess mental illness stigma
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Adversity quotient
An adversity quotient (AQ) is a score that measures the ability of a person to deal with adversities in their life.Singh, S., & Sharma, T. (2017). Affect of Adversity Quotient on the occupational stress of IT managers in India. Procedia Computer S ...
, the ability to overcome adversities
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Autism-spectrum quotient
The autism-spectrum quotient (AQ) is a questionnaire published in 2001 by Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, UK. Consisting of fifty questions, it aims to investigate whether adults of average intel ...
, an adult test for autism spectrum disorder
Unit of measure
* Aq, or
inch of water
Inches of water is a non- SI unit for pressure. It is also given as inches of water gauge (iwg or in.w.g.), inches water column (inch wc, in. WC, " wc, etc. or just wc or WC), inAq, Aq, or inHO. The units are conventionally used for measurement o ...
, a unit of pressure
See also
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AQA (disambiguation) AQA may refer to or stand for:
aqa
* aqa, the ISO 639-5 for the unspecified Alacalufan languages
Aqa
* Aqa, one of two villages in Iran
** Aqa, Kermanshah
** Aqa, Lorestan
AQA
* AST-Quadram-Ashton-Tate, an alliance responsible for the definit ...
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Aqua (disambiguation)
Aqua is the Latin word for water. As such, it is often used in many words which relate to water, such as aquatic life. In English, it may also refer to:
Arts
* Aqua (color), a greenish-blue color
Business
* Aqua (Chicago), an 82-story resid ...
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Ei-Q
was a Japanese artist who worked in a variety of media, including photography and engraving.
Life and career
Ei-Q, whose early work was done under his real name of Hideo Sugita (, ''Sugita Hideo''), was born in Miyazaki-machi (now Miyazaki City ...
(1911–1960), photographer
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QA (disambiguation)
QA or qa may refer to:
Businesses Airlines
* Qantas Airlines, Australia (founded 1920)
* Aerocaribe, Mexico (1972–2005)
* Cimber (airline), Denmark (2012–2018))
* MexicanaClick, Mexico (2005–2010)
Education
* QA (company), a Briti ...
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