PQ
abbreviation
Quebec, Canada (approved for postal use).
PQ
1 Americanabbreviation
p.q.
2
American
abbreviation
P.Q.
3
American
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PQ
1
British
abbreviation
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(esp in postal addresses) Province of Quebec
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Parti Québécois
pq
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British
abbreviation
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Asked about the prospect of another referendum following the PQ win, Carney sidestepped.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
It marks the first time the PQ has been in power since 2014, with Paul St-Pierre Plamondon set to become the province's new leader.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In solving this puzzle, the PQ symmetry introduces the axion, a hypothetical particle that is a leading candidate for dark matter.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2025
Product placements in the United States are estimated to be a nearly $23 billion industry, according to PQ Media, a research firm.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
The middle point of PQ is the center of the conic.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Derrick Norman Lehmer
The authors had left the solution to the anagram in a sealed envelope with the P.Q. editor.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2016
In 1976, the P.Q. toppled the Liberal government of Lévesque's onetime friend Robert Bourassa, winning 69 of 110 seats in the provincial assembly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faced with that evidence of fluid opinion, P.Q. experts are now debating how to word the referendum question to give Lévesque the best chance of winning a favorable vote.
From Time Magazine Archive
The father, known as P.Q., is a freethinking, argumentative intellectual who runs a tatty laundry, more or less when he feels like it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seigneur of Crane Island, P.Q., and lately President of the Montreal Club for the protection of fish and game.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine
In other words, the frequency of pp individuals is simply p2; the frequency of pq individuals is 2pq; and the frequency of qq individuals is q2.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In the popular RSA public-key system1, the public key is a product N = pq of two secret prime numbers p and q.
From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2017
I measured also the distances of the brightest parts of the Fringes which run between pq and st, qr and tv, and next beyond r and v, and found them 0'5, 0'8, and 1'17 Inches.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
In fine, then, we may, a priori, hope to reach an approximation of one hundred-thousandth of the value of pq.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
If we take ρ = 1, we have the absolute value Θ of the same interval of time as a function of this unit; we have simply Θ = pq.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
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