QL

Domain	Definition
Computing	QL (Quantum Leap) Sir Clive Sinclair's first Motorola 68008-based personal computer, developed from around 1981 and released about 1983. The QL ran Sinclair's QDOS operating system which was the first multitasking OS on a home computer, though few programmers used this feature. It had a structured, extended BASIC and a suite of integrated application programs written by Psion. It featured innovative "microdrives" which were random access tape drives. It was not a success. The microdrives were innovative but probably a mistake. Though reliable and quite quick, they sounded like they were going to jam and explode, releasing a shower of plastic shavings and tape into your face. The QL and QDOS only supported two graphics modes - ominously named high res and low res. High res had four (fixed) colours at a resolution of 512 by 256 pixels. Low res had 8 colours (black, blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white) plus a flash mode with 256 by 256 pixels. The sound was next to useless - single channel single oscillator with various parameters for fuzz, pitch change. There was one internal font, scalable to 2 heights and 3 widths. Peripherals and enhancements included a GUI on a plug-in ROM, accelerator cards (Motorola 68020, 4 MB RAM), floppy disks and hard disks. In 1996 there is still some interest in the QL, spread by the Internet of course. Emulation software, source code, "The QL Hackers Journal" and similar are still available, and many QLs are on the net. (http://www.imaginet.fr/~godefroy/english). (1996-08-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: QL

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.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
QL	English	Quick Load	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Commercial Usage: QL

Domain	Title
Books	Basic Programming on the Ql (reference) Computer Handbook: The Sinclair Ql (reference) Getting to Know Your Sinclair Ql (Getting to Know Your Computer) (reference) Illustrating Super-Basic on the Sinclair QL (reference) Ql Assembly Language Programming (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Monster Cable QL GAS-H QuickLock Gold Angled Spade Connectors (2-Pair Pack) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: QL

"QL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "QL" is used about 2 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)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: QL

Anagrams: QL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "l-q"
	+3 letters: equal, quail, quale, qualm, quell, quill, quilt.
	+4 letters: calque, claque, clique, cliquy, cloque, equals, liquid, liquor, loquat, plaque, pulque, quails, qualia, qualms, qualmy, quells, quezal, quills, quilts, quinol, sequel, sheqel, squall, squeal, squill.
	+5 letters: alfaqui, aliquot, calqued, calques, claquer, claques, cliqued, cliques, cliquey, cloques, coequal, equable, equably, equaled, equally, jonquil, lacquer, lacquey, liquate, liquefy, liqueur, liquids, liquify, liquors, loquats, oblique, obloquy, pasquil, plaques, prequel, pulques, quailed, quakily, qualify, quality, quantal, quarrel, queenly, queerly, quelled, queller, quetzal, quezals, quibble, quickly, quietly, quillai, quilled, quillet, quilted, quilter, quinela, quinols, quintal, relique, rorqual, sequela, sequels, siliqua, silique, squalid, squalls, squally, squalor, squatly, squeals, squelch, squilla, squills, tequila, unequal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: QL

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

51 4C

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)

01010001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 004C

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

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

Expression	Frequency per Day
ql	21
ejb ql	5
ql 7000 samsung	3
ql sinclair	2
canon ft ql	2
9450 microscope murder ql under	2
3 ejb findbyprimarykey jboss ql	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

QL

Specialty Definition: QL

Computing

Abbreviations & Acronyms: QL

QL

Crosswords: QL

Commercial Usage: QL

Books

High Tech

Usage Frequency: QL

Frequency of Internet Keywords: QL

ql

ejb ql

ql 7000 samsung

ql sinclair

canon ft ql

9450 microscope murder ql under

3 ejb findbyprimarykey jboss ql