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Queen's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of ...

, the title of a King's Counsel, a type of lawyer in Commonwealth countries, during the reign of a queen *

Quality control Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. ISO 9000 defines quality control as "a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements". This approach places ...

, the process of meeting products and services to consumer expectations

Places

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, a Canadian province *

Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métrop ...

, capital of the Province of Quebec, Canada *

Quezon City Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populatio ...

, Philippines * The

Quad Cities The Quad Cities is a region of cities (originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois. These cities are t ...

, a polycentric

metropolitan area A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually com ...

on the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

in the United States * Queen City (disambiguation), several populated places * The QC, a nickname for

Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''

Quake Champions ''Quake Champions'' is a first-person arena shooter developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main entry in the '' Quake'' series, following 2005's ''Quake 4''. The game was first released in early access on ...

'', a first-person shooter video game *

Quality Control Music Quality Control Music (also known as Quality Control or QC) is an American hip hop record label founded by Kevin "Coach K" Lee (Chief operating officer, COO) and Pierre "P" Thomas (Chief executive officer, CEO) in March 2013. Its productions were ...

, an Atlanta-based record label * '' Questionable Content'', a web-comic by Jeph Jacques

Education

QualiEd College QualiEd College (, abbreviated to QC) is a secondary school established in 2003 in Hong Kong by the QualiEd Educational Organization. It was approved by the Education Bureau to be managed under Man Kwan Educational Organization starting from 1{ ...

, a school in Hong Kong *

Queen's College (disambiguation) Queen's College, Queens' College or Queens College may refer to; Colleges within universities *Queens' College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, England * Queen's College, Melbourne, Australia *Queens College, City University of New York, US * ...

, several institutions

Science and technology

Computing

QuakeC QuakeC is a compiled language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the video game '' Quake''. Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize ''Quake'' to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and ...

, a scripting language in the computer game Quake by ID Software *

Quantum computing Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...

, a type of computation *

Quantum cryptography Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. The best known example of quantum cryptography is quantum key distribution which offers an information-theoretically secure solution ...

, a variety of cryptography employing quantum mechanics or quantum computers *

Quartz Composer Quartz Composer is a node-based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in macOS for processing and rendering graphical data. Quartz Composer uses OpenGL (including GLSL), OpenCL (only in Mac OS X Snow ...

, a node-based visual programming language *

Quick Charge Quick Charge (QC) is a proprietary battery charging protocol developed by Qualcomm, used for managing power delivered over USB, mainly by communicating to the power supply and negotiating a voltage. Quick Charge is supported by devices such as ...

, a technology for managing power delivered over USB

Other uses in science and technology

* ATCvet code QC, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System for veterinary medicinal products * Quantum cascade, a technique used in a

quantum cascade laser Quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor lasers that emit in the mid- to far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and were first demonstrated by Jérôme Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson, ...

Quantum chemistry Quantum chemistry, also called molecular quantum mechanics, is a branch of physical chemistry focused on the application of quantum mechanics to chemical systems, particularly towards the quantum-mechanical calculation of electronic contributions ...

, quantum mechanical methods in chemistry

Other uses

Quebec Central Railway The Quebec Central Railway was a railway in the Canadian province of Quebec, that served the Eastern Townships region south of the St. Lawrence River. Its headquarters was in Sherbrooke. It was originally incorporated in 1869 as the Sherbrooke, ...

, a former railway in Canada *

QuietComfort Bose Corporation, Bose has sold aviation headset (audio), headsets since 1989 and consumer headphones since 2000. The current range of headphones/headsets consists of over-ear, in-ear, aviation and military models. Over-ear headphones Developmen ...

, a product line of Bose headphones * Quota Count system, a limit on night-time aircraft noise {{disambiguation