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AQ

"AQ" is a common misspelling or typo for: a, ad, am, an, as, at, ax.


Specialty Definition: AQ

DomainDefinition

Computing

Aq The country code for Antarctica. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Mining

A letter name specifying the dimensions of bits, core barrels, and drill rods in the A-size and Q-series wireline diamond drilling system having acore diameter of 27 mm and a hole diameter of 48 mm. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: AQ

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

AQ or aq may stand for:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AQ."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AQ

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

AQ

DanishAntarktisGeography

AQ

EnglishAutism-Spectrum QuotientN/A

AQ

FrenchL'AntarctiqueGeography

AQ

GreekΑνταρκτικήGeography

AQ

ItalianAntartideGeography

AQ

PortugueseAntárctidaGeography

AQ

SpanishAntártidaGeography
AQ SOLEnglishAqueous SolutionN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: AQ

Non-English Usage: "AQ" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (so, that much), Hawaiian (that much), Portuguese (Antarctica).

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Modern Usage: AQ

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Chventan Aq (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: AQ

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aq tymyq tçun : roman, povester men æaënìggåimeler (reference)

  • Aq zhol : syn kåitaby : maqalalar, zertteuler (reference)

  • Information Across the Waves: The World As a Multimedia Experience: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Association of aq (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AQ

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

At Mae Moh, the power plant with the worst case of air pollution emission in Thailand, there are 15 ambient AQ monitoring stations. (references)

It will still be a while yet before technical transfer to local governments reach the level needed for them to be capable of operating and maintaining their own ambient AQ monitoring stations. (references)

There is currently no regulation that requires the installation of ambient AQ monitoring stations for any type of industry except for when there is some discreet problem spot such as the cases at Mae Moh lignite power plant and Map Tha Phut industrial estate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: AQ

"AQ" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "AQ" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)50%2245,945
Noun (singular)50%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: AQ

Expressions using "AQ": Beconase AQ Nasacort AQ Vancenase AQ. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AQ

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aq

104

aq oracle

3

nasacort aq

47

1 testabolin aq

2

beconase aq

17

nasacort aq side effects

2

aq pl sexczat

11

aq course university york

2

aq saf

8

aq com

2

nutropin aq

6

aq edu.yorku.ca

2

aq christina

4

aq player

2

rhinocort aq

4

aq as

2

testabolin aq

4

aq shedd

2

aq chicken house

4

aq course uwo

2

aq chicken

3

aq newport

2

aq course

3

ania aq pl

2

171a aq

3

aq eraser

2

vancenase aq

3

aq eraser

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: AQ

Derivations

Words beginning with "AQ": aqua, aquacade, aquacades, aquacultural, aquaculture, aquacultures, aquaculturist, aquaculturists, aquae, aquamarine, aquamarines, aquanaut, aquanauts, aquaplane, aquaplaned, aquaplaner, aquaplaners, aquaplanes, aquaplaning, aquarelle, aquarelles, aquarellist, aquarellists, aquaria, aquarial, aquarian, aquarians, aquarist, aquarists, aquarium, aquariums, aquas, aquatic, aquatically, aquatics, aquatint, aquatinted, aquatinter, aquatinters, aquatinting, aquatintist, aquatintists, aquatints, aquatone, aquatones, aquavit, aquavits, aqueduct, aqueducts, aqueous, aquiculture. (additional references)

Words ending with "AQ": umiaq. (additional references)

Words containing "AQ": alfaqui, alfaquin, alfaquins, alfaquis, anthraquinone, anthraquinones, antiplaque, chaqueta, chaquetas, claque, claquer, claquers, claques, claqueur, claqueurs, faqir, faqirs, faquir, faquirs, macaque, macaques, maquette, maquettes, maqui, maquiladora, maquiladoras, maquillage, maquillages, maquis, methaqualone, methaqualones, nonaquatic, nonaqueous, opaque, opaqued, opaquely, opaqueness, opaquenesses, opaquer, opaques, opaquest, opaquing, paraquat, paraquats, paraquet, paraquets, plaque, plaques, radiopaque, seaquake, seaquakes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AQ

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "a-q"
 

+1 letter: qat, qua.

 

+2 letters: aqua, qaid, qats, quad, quag, quai, quay.

 

+3 letters: aquae, aquas, equal, faqir, maqui, qaids, qanat, quack, quads, quaff, quags, quail, quais, quake, quaky, quale, qualm, quant, quare, quark, quart, quash, quasi, quass, quate, quays, quean, quota, squab, squad, squat, squaw, tranq, umiaq.

 

+4 letters: acquit, barque, basque, buqsha, caique, calque, casque, claque, diquat, equals, equate, faqirs, faquir, loquat, manque, maquis, marque, masque, opaque, plaque, qanats, qindar, qintar, quacks, quaere, quaffs, quagga, quaggy, quahog, quaich, quaigh, quails, quaint, quaked, quaker, quakes, qualia, qualms, qualmy, quango, quanta, quants, quarks, quarry, quarte, quarto, quarts, quartz, quasar, quatre, quaver, queans, queasy, queazy, quezal, quinoa, quinta, quokka, quotas, quotha, sacque, squabs, squads, squall, squama, square, squash, squats, squawk, squaws, squeak, squeal, tranqs, umiaqs, yanqui.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AQ


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 51

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#81

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0051

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3551

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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