SQ
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Sq or SQ may stand for:
- String quartetString quartetA string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
- Sûreté du QuébecSûreté du QuébecSûreté du Québec or SQ is the provincial police force for the Canadian province of Québec...
, the Quebec police force - The ISO code for the Albanian languageAlbanian languageAlbanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
(ISO 639 alpha-2) - SquadronSquadronSquadron has different meanings:*Squadron , a cavalry or other unit that consists of a number of troops.*Squadron , a unit of aircraft that consists of three or four "flights", with a total of 12 to 24 aircraft, depending on aircraft type and air force.*Squadron , a unit of 3-4 major naval vessels...
- Square (algebra), a type of measure of area, such as square foot (sq ft)
- Scholar of Queen's UniversityQueen's UniversityQueen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
, usually followed by a single lower case letter to denote faculty Used primary as a postnominal by students of the Commerce program (e.g. SQc - Scholar of Queen's Commerce) - Singapore AirlinesSingapore AirlinesSingapore Airlines Limited is the flag carrier airline of Singapore. Singapore Airlines operates a hub at Changi Airport and has a strong presence in the Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and "Kangaroo Route" markets...
IATA airline designator - Sentience QuotientSentience QuotientThe sentience quotient concept was introduced by Robert A. Freitas Jr. in the late 1970s. It defines sentience as the relationship between the information processing rate of each individual processing unit , the weight/size of a single unit and the total number of processing units .This is a...
, a term to measure the total processing capacity of a brain - Sound QualitySound qualitySound quality is the quality of the audio output from various electronic devices. Sound quality can be defined as the degree of accuracy with which a device records or emits the original sound waves...
, the characteristics of the output of a preamp, amp or sound system - Space QuestSpace QuestSpace Quest is a series of six comedic science fiction computer games that follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco, as he campaigns through the galaxy for "truth, justice and really clean floors"....
, a series of adventure games by Sierra Entertainment - Spiritual quotientSpiritual quotientSpiritual quotient is described as a measure that looks at a person's spiritual intelligence in the same way as intelligence quotient looks at cognitive intelligence...
, a term in popular psychology - Super Quiz, an event in the United States Academic DecathlonUnited States Academic DecathlonThe United States Academic Decathlon is an annual high school academic competition organized by the non-profit United States Academic Decathlon Association. The competition consists of seven multiple choice tests, two performance events, and an essay...
- Subcutaneous injectionSubcutaneous injectionA subcutaneous injection is administered as a bolus into the subcutis, the layer of skin directly below the dermis and epidermis, collectively referred to as the...
, an abbreviation based on pronunciation - Quadraphonic sound, a matrix quadraphonic gramophone record format developed by CBS
- SQ (program)SQ (program)SQ was a program used in the early 1980s on both DOS and CP/M computer systems to compress files so they use less space. Files compressed by SQ are identified by changing the middle initial of the extension to "Q", so that text files ended with the extension .TQT, executable files ended with the...
, a program for compressing files on MS-DOS and CP/M