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staphylococcic (medicine) and Q (iou)


staphylococcic (medicine)


staphylococcic


Relating to or caused by any species of Staphylococcus.


Q (iou)



Q, q. [kju:]
The seventeenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the sixteenth of the ancient Roman one, in the latter an adoption of the &koppa; (koppa) of some of the early Greek alphabets, in turn derived from the Phoenician letter used to represent voiced uvular. In Latin, Q was regularly used with v to represent the double sound . Pl. Q's, Qs.
I.
The letter and its sound.
mind one's P's and Q's: see P, P. Q-CELTIC.
The shape of the letter.
II. Symbolical uses.
Used to denote the serial order; applied e.g. to the seventeenth (or often the sixteenth, either I or J being omitted) group or section, sheet of a book, etc.
a. Q-boat, Q-ship, an armed and camouflaged merchant ship used as a decoy or to destroy submarines.
b. Q car, a disguised police car.
c. Q fever [abbreviation of query], a febrile disease resembling influenza, caused by a rickettsia.
Physics. [Initial letter of quantity.] Representing electric charge.
Theology. [Prob. abbreviation of German Quelle source.] (Cap. Q.) Used to denote the hypothetical source of the passages shared by the gospels of Matthew and Luke, but not found in Mark.
(Cap. Q.) The ratio of the reactance of an inductor or capacitor to its resistance; a parameter of an oscillatory system or device (as a laser) representing the degree to which it is undamped and hence expressing the relationship between stored energy and energy dissipation. Also Q factor.
Q meter Electricity an instrument for measuring the Q of a component. Q-spoiling Electronics Q-switching. Q-switch noun & verb (Physics) (a) noun A means of suddenly increasing or decreasing the Q of a laser by unblocking the optical path to one of the mirrors; (b) verb trans. Use a Q-switch on (a laser), esp. to increase the Q and produce a single pulse of very high power (chiefly as Q-switched ppl adjective, Q-switching verbal noun).
Psychology. More fully Q-sort, Q-technique. A personality testing method in which each subject has to rate in order those personality traits that seem most applicable to himself or herself.
(Cap. Q.) A unit of energy equal to 1018 British thermal units (approx. 1021 joule).
Q-Tip, (proprietary name for) a cotton swab on a small stick.
III.
Abbrevs.: Q = quartermaster, quartermaster-General, -sergeant; quarto; Queen; query, question.