PQ
abbreviation
Quebec, Canada (approved for postal use).
PQ
1 Americanabbreviation
p.q.
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P.Q.
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American
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PQ
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British
abbreviation
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(esp in postal addresses) Province of Quebec
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Parti Québécois
pq
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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
"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
The middle point of PQ is the center of the conic.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
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
At the P.Q. victory party in Montreal's Paul Sauvé Arena, 6,000 supporters embraced, wept and roared out the words of a modern Quebec chanson, "Tomorrow belongs to us ..."
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
What on earth could Allison be doing at the dépôt of the P.Q.
From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles
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 Newton, Isaac, Sir
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
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
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