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  • QN
    QN
    queen's knight.
  • q.n.
    q.n.
    abbreviation
    (in prescriptions) every night.
  • qn
    qn
    abbreviation
    quaque nocte

QN

1 American  
Chess.
  1. queen's knight.


q.n. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) every night.


QN 1 British  

symbol

  1. queen's knight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

qn 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. quaque nocte

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of q.n.

From Latin quoque nocte

Example Sentences

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Through it all, the woman who had "ICE QN" license plates on her Mercedes has tried to keep the world at arm's length, rarely granting interviews.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2016

For these curves do not represent any particular amounts; they represent a series of relations between amount and price; if the price is QN the amount demanded is ON, and so forth.

From Supply and Demand by Henderson, Hubert D.

The probability of exactly x successes in n trials is P⎛X = x⎞ = ⎛nx⎞px qn − x .

From Textbooks Sep. 19, 2013

We have the relations pn = anpn-1 + bnpn-2,    qn = anqn-1 + bnqn-2.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

Qn, q1, ... qn, we obtain the following results: If ZX1 ...

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Sir,—Receive the enclosd paper, qn you are takeing yor Botle it will divert yorself and comrad's.

From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

He is ordainit to labour it, and promist to do so efter Whitsonday, qn it was for faching.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

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