| quadruple rhythm | A quadruple cadence to the heart sounds due to the easy audibility of both third and fourth heart sounds, indicative of serious myocardial disease. Synonym: trainwheel rhythm. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| quadruplet | One of four children born at one birth. Synonym: quadrigeminus. Origin: L. Quadruplus, four fold (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadruplex | Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. <physics> Quadruplex system, a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire. Origin: L, from quattuor four + plicare to fold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quadruplicate | 1. Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion. 2. <mathematics> Raised to the fourth power. Origin: L. Quadruplicatus, p. P. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quagga | <zoology> A South African wild ass (Equus, or Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body. Origin: Hottentot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quahaug | <zoology> An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam. The name is also applied to other allied species, as Venus Mortoni of the Gulf of Mexico. Origin: Abbrev. Fr. Narragansett Indian poquauhock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quail | Small galliform bird. Quail embryos are often use in developmental studies because quail cells can be distinguished from chicken cells, yet the two are sufficiently closely related that it is possible to graft embryonic tissue from one to the other. (18 Nov 1997) |
| quail bronchitis virus | A virus, similiar to an adenovirus, closely related antigenically to CELO virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quaily | <zoology> The upland plover. Origin: Cf. Quail the bird. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quaker | 1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend. "Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and lay struggling as if for life." (Encyc. Brit) 3. <zoology> The nankeen bird. The sooty albatross. Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; so called from the quaking noise made during flight. Quaker buttons. <botany> A low American biennial plant (Houstonia caerulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; also called bluets, and little innocents. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quakeress | A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quaketail | <zoology> A wagtail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quaking | <botany> From Quake, Quaking aspen One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. Media and B. Minor are the smaller kinds. Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| qualificator | An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts. Origin: LL. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| qualifying facility | A power production facility that qualifies for special treatment under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. A qualifying facility must generate its power using cogeneration, biomass, waste, geothermal energy, or renewable resources, such as solar and wind. PURPA prohibits utilities from owning majority interest in qualifying facilities. (05 Dec 1998) |
| quality assurance |
a management system which controls each stage of food production from raw material harvest to final consumption.
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| quantitative trait |
A measurable trait that shows continuous variation; a trait that can not be classified into a few discrete classes.
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| quadrilateral |
a polygon with four sides; squares and rhombi are two important types of quadrilaterals
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| quantity |
a characteristic of a system that can be well described and possibly assigned values. Energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum are examples of quantities associated with all systems.
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| quasi- |
Almost. Used with other terms, eg quasi madrigal, almost or as if a madrigal.
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| qua | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells |
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| qua | an edible American clam |
| qua | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells |
| qua | the French department in charge of foreign affairs |
| qua | the street in Paris along the south bank of the Seine known for its governmental ministries |
| qua | small gallinaceous game birds |
| qua | (game bird) flesh of quail |
| qua | draw back, as with fear or pain |
| qua | anticipate with dread or anxiety |
| qua | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| qua | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| qua | strange in an interesting or pleasing way |