PQ
abbreviation
Quebec, Canada (approved for postal use).
PQ
1 Americanabbreviation
p.q.
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American
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P.Q.
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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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The B-L flux tube provides a structure for the PQ superfluid vortex's Chern-Simons coupling to attach to.
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
"It's a beautiful moment for Quebec democracy," said PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2022
These include major businesses like ExxonMobil and the PQ corporation, which have a refinery and chemical plant in the city, respectively, and would be the city's biggest customers once the water starts flowing.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2022
For since YX' is ⊥ to PQ, and XY' is also ⊥ to PQ, YX' is || to XY'.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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
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
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
In the third exaumple, O. is the blunte corner assigned, P.Q. is the line, and R.S.T. is the portion of the circle, that containeth that blũt corner, and is drawen on R.T. the line appointed.
From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record
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
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
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
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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