The seventeenth letter and thirteenth consonant in the English alphabet.As a medieval Roman numeral, 500.An abbreviation: [lowercase] of quadrans (a farthing)[lowercase] of query[lowercase] of questionof queen[lowercase] in a ship's logbook, of squallsin Rom. lit. and inscriptions, of Quintus.A half-farthing: same as cue, 2 .n. An abbreviation of Queen's Bench.n. An abbreviation: of Queen's Council or Queen's Counseln. of Queen's College.n. orn. orn. An abbreviation of quartermaster.n. An abbreviation of quarter-sessions.n. orn. of the Latin phrase quantum sufficit.n. An abbreviation of the Latin phrase quantum vis, ‘as much as you will’n. of quod vide, ‘which see.’An abbreviation in electrotechnics, of quantity;[lowercase] of quasi;[lowercase] of quintal;of the Latin Quirites.Same as cue, 3 : as, to give or take the Q.In psychophysics, the symbol for the Fechnerian space-error.An abbreviation of the Latin quasi dictum, as if said;of the Latin quasi dixisset, as if he had said.An abbreviation in psychophysics, of quotient limen;[lowercase] of the Latin quantum libet, as much as is required.Abbreviations of the Latin quantum placeat, as much as seems good.A contraction of quiet.