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achievement quotient
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al-Qaeda
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aqua
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Etymology
Origin of aq.
From the Latin word aqua
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According to the researchers, the strongest health benefits appeared at 100 AQ points or higher.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
AQ points are earned whenever physical activity raises your heart rate enough to make you slightly out of breath.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
Yan said she and her friends all used AQ, after initially crosschecking its answers with doctors.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
There would be a single AQ spot available for the best team that’s not in one of the power leagues.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
The grating at A and the eye-piece at O are rigidly attached to a bar AO, whose ends rest on carriages, moving on rails OQ, AQ at right angles to each other.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
Rich glanced at it, saw that it was labelled aq. dest., and filled up the medicine-bottle, the boy handing the cork, and then gazing sympathetically in the pain-drawn face before him.
From The Bag of Diamonds by George Manville Fenn
Any budding medico who understood the pre-eminence enjoyed by aq. ad in a prescription, would have diagnosed him as a first-rate subject for apoplexy.
From The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy
Larrey recommends with the same view, after the application of moxa, the use of the aq. ammoniæ.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
Digital. purp. sicc. ʒiss. aq. bullient. ℔ss. digere per semi-horam, colaturæ adde tinct. aromatic ℥i.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
R. Sal. nitr. sal. diuretic. aa ʒii. pulv. e contrayerv. comp. ʒi. sacchar. ℥i. emuls. commun. ℔i. aq. cinnam. simpl. ℥i. m. capt. cochlear. iv. ter die.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
Seems like an awful lot of money to be made in just aq few years...
From Newsweek ● Jan. 8, 2010
Another name for goose being aq or ak, we find that its value as a rebus must have been supreme, since it so perfectly expressed the word ak=middle.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
Converting a b into a continued fraction and proceeding as before, we obtain, in the case of aq − bp = 1, x = cq − bt, y = at − cp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
This amounts to saying that if x = p + q + r + ···, then ax = ap + aq + ar + ···.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
If aq − bp = −1 we obtain the general solution x = bt − cq, y = cp − at, which is of the same form as in the preceding case.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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