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Quantum tunnelling Quantum tunnelling (or tunneling) is the quantum-mechanical effect of transitioning through a classically-forbidden energy state. It can be generalized to other types of classically-forbidden transitions as well.
Quantum Theology Quantum Theology is a 1997 book by Diarmuid O'Murchu, a priest and social psychologist from the British Isles. O'Murchu discusses how certain concepts from the modern quantum theory may point to deep spiritual truths, while admitting that this interpretation does not ring true to mainstream scientists:
Quantum vibration A quantum vibration is a vibration of a chemical bond in a molecule that must be treated quantum mechanically. The low-lying vibration energy states can be described as states of the quantum harmonic oscillator, and at higher vibrational states, near the bond disassociation limit, as Morse oscillators.
Quantum virtual machine A Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) is a virtual machine which emulates a quantum computer. It provides a structure for a quantum register (the memory of a quantum computer) and operations for the manipulation of a quantum register.
Quantum vortex A quantum vortex is a topological defect exhibited in superfluids and superconductors. The existence of these quantum vortices were independently predicted by Richard Feynman and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov in the 1950s.
Quantum well A quantum well is a potential well that confines particles, which were originally free to move in three dimensions, to two dimensions, forcing them to occupy a planar region. The effects of quantum confinement take place when the quantum well thickness becomes comparable at the de Broglie wavelength of the carriers (generally electrons and holes), leading to energy levels called "energy subbands", i.
Quantum well infrared photodetector A quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP), is an infrared photodetector made from semiconductor materials which contain one or more quantum wells. These can be integrated together with electronics and optics to make infrared cameras for thermography.
Quantum wire In condensed matter physics, a quantum wire is an electrically conducting wire, in which quantum effects are affecting transport properties. Due to the confinement of conduction electrons in the transverse direction of the wire, their transverse energy is quantized into a series of discrete values E_0 ("ground state" energy, with lower value), E_1,...
Quantum yield The quantum yield of a radiation-induced process is the number of times that a defined event (usually a chemical reaction step) occurs per photon absorbed by the system. Thus, the quantum yield is a measure of the efficiency with which absorbed light produces some effect.
Quantum Zeno effect The quantum Zeno effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon first described by George Sudarshan and Baidyanaith Misra of the University of Texas in 1977. It describes the situation that an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay.
Quantum3D Quantum3D was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from 3dfx that was created to bring 3dfx's scalable graphics technologies (the Voodoo family of graphics chips) to the game enthusiast, coin-op/arcade/LBE and visual simulation and training market. Founded by 3dfx and SGI co-founders, the company has developed a range of 3dfx and now NVIDIA-based board level and system level products for advanced, realtime 3D graphics and video intensive applications.
QuantumLink Serial The QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed on AOL (1988-89) was the first episodic online story. The series was also known as the PC-Link Serial and the AppleLink Serial before all three services were unified when Quantum changed its name to AOL.
Quanzhen School The Quanzhen School(Chinese: 全真派; pinyin: quán zhēn pà i) or Complete Perfection School is a major sect of Taoism that originated in China. It was founded by a Taoist priest, Wang Chongyang in the 12th century during the rise of the Jurchens of Jin Dynasty.
Quanzhou Quanzhou () is a prefecture-level city] in southeastern [[Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders all other prefecture-level cities in Fujian but two (Ningde and Nanping) and faces the Taiwan Strait.
Quaoar (mythology) Quaoar (pronounced kwaa'·waar or kwow'·ər, English ) is the name of a creation deity of the Native American Tongva people, native to the area around Los Angeles, California. According to Tongva mythology, Quaoar sings and dances the world and other deities into existence.
Quapaw Quarter, Little Rock, Arkansas The Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock, Arkansas is a section of the city including its oldest and most historic business and residential neighborhoods. The name of the area was first given in 1961, honoring the Quapaw Indians who once lived in the area centuries ago.
Quaqtaq, Quebec Quaqtaq (population 307) is an Inuit village in Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada. The village is one of the northernmost inhabited places in Quebec, located on the eastern shore of Diana Bay (Tuvaaluk in the Inuktitut language), on a peninsula which protrudes into the Hudson Strait where it meets Ungava Bay.
Quaquerni The Quaquerni were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, province of Minho, in the mountains at the mouths of the rivers Tâmega and Cávado.
QuaraĂ River The QuaraĂ River (Portuguese Rio QuaraĂ, Spanish RĂo Cuareim) is a tributary of the Uruguay River. The river originates in the Coxilha de Santana, an area of low-lying hills, and runs westward to join the Uruguay.
Quarai The Quarai were a Tiguex Puebloan band of American Indians that originated in present-day New Mexico. Because of Apache hostilities they fled to El Paso in around 1675; later they moved to Isleta del Sur on the Rio Grande.
Quarantine (computer game) Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter computer game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek. In the game the player drivers a taxicab through a post-apocalyptic city, while picking up customers and killing enemies.
Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) Scott Wilson is a SDI weapons designer who is reanimated into an unknown future after being cryogenically frozen for an incurable illness for three centuries. He is greeted by Tess Harper, a telepathic woman of the future who not only performs psychic surgery on him to cure his disease, but introduces him to the agrarian post apocalypse community she lives in.
Quarantine Speech The Quarantine Speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and isolationism that was prevalent at the time. The speech intensified America's isolationist mood, causing protest by isolationists and foes to intervention.
Quarantine technology In December, 1988, shortly after the Morris Worm, Jay Nickson started work on Quarantine, an anti-malware and file reliability product. released in April, 1989, Quarantine was the first such product to use file signature instead of viral signature methods.
Quararibea asterolepis Quararibea asterolepis (Cinco dedos, Guácimo molenillo, Guayabillo, Garrocho, Molenillo, Panula, Palo cuadrado; syn. Quararibea stenophylla Pittier) is a timber tree native to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
Quarashi Quarashi was a rap/hip-hop group from ReykjavĂk, Iceland. It was comprised of Hössi Ă“lafsson (replaced by Tiny (real name Egill Ă“lafur Thorarensen) on the final album), who was the lead vocalist and frontman of the group, Omar Swarez (Ă“mar Ă–rn Hauksson), who served as a rapper and hype man, and Steini a.
Quarashi (album) Quarashi is the debut hip hop album by the group of the same name, released on October 13, 1997 in Iceland (see 1997 in music). Already popular in Iceland thanks to the EP, Switchstance, Quarashi released their first full-length album with more of the hip-hop infused rock, techno, and funk that brought them fame in the first place.
Quarff Primary School Quarff Primary School, Shetlands, was a school that existed from 1879 until it was closed in 2003, due to a lack of interest in the position of headmaster. The 17 students at the school were forced to move to Cunningsburgh School, where their former headmistress was working.
Quark (anthology series) Quark was an anthology book series devoted to avant-garde science fiction and related material, edited by fiction-writer and critic Samuel Delany and poet and editor Marilyn Hacker; four volumes were published in 1970 and 1971. The editors, once married, were among the foremost homosexual activist/writers in the following decades.
Quark (kernel) The Quark kernel used in MorphOS is a microkernel designed to run totally virtualized computers, called "boxes" (see sandbox). Currently only one "Box" is available, the ABox, that lets users run old AmigaOS software compiled for MC680x0 processors.
Quark (Star Trek) Quark, son of Keldar and Ishka, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman, and a regular for the show's seven-year run. A member of the ultra-capitalist Ferengi, Quark owned a bar on the Promenade of Deep Space Nine.
Quark model In physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks, ie, the quarks (and antiquarks) which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. These quantum numbers are labels identifying the hadrons, and are of two kinds.
Quark Publishing System The Quark Publishing System (commonly know as acronym QPS) is a workflow mangagement system, mostly used by magazine editorial staffs but also occasionally found at newspapers, book publishers, catalog companies, advertising agencies and others.
Quark star A quark star or strange star is a hypothetical type of star composed of quark matter, or strange matter. These are ultra-dense phases of degenerate matter theorized to form inside particularly massive neutron stars.
Quark-gluon plasma A quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a phase of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which exists at extremely high temperature and density. It is believed to have existed during the first 20 or 30 microseconds after the universe came into existence in the Big Bang.
Quark, Strangeness and Charm (single) Quark, Strangeness and Charm is a 1977 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind. It was originally released as a single in the UK (CB305) on 29 July 1977, being a slightly different version to the one on the album Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science was an educational computer game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS in early 1992. It was designed to teach scientific concepts to children.
Quarles Range Quarles Range () is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper and Bowman Glaciers and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Peaks in the range were first sighted by Captain Roald Amundsen in 1911, and the range was mapped in detail by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30.
Quarr Abbey House The Quarr Abbey House of the early 20th century was one of several of fine houses constructed along the north coast of the Isle of Wight in southern England. It was built with stone from the ruins of a Norman abbey on the site.
Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (French: querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) was a literary and artistic quarrel that heated up in the early 1690s and shook the Académie française. It opposed two sides:
Quarrendon Upper School Quarrendon Upper School, formerly Quarrendon County Secondary School, is a mixed, non-selective secondary school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 16.
Quarry Bay Quarry Bay (é°‚éšć¶Ś; literally Crucian Carp Stream or River or çźłç¤¦çŁ / 採石çŁ) is an area beneath Mount Parker in Eastern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The western portion of the area was also formerly known as Lai Chi (éş—ć± ).
Quarry, Newfoundland and Labrador Quarry is an abandoned railway community that was located in the Gaff Topsails area of the province of Newfoundland, Canada. The community lies just north of Buchans and takes its name from the quarry established in the 1890's when the Newfoundland Railway was being built.
Quartell Quartell is a small town and municipality in the fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Province of Valencia in eastern Spain. It is close to the sea, thirty five kilometers north of the provincial capital city Valencia, and ten kilometers north of Sagunto.
Quarter Acre In Australian and New Zealand English, a Quarter Acre is a term for a suburban plot of land. Traditionally, Australians and Kiwis aspire to own a 3- or 4-bedroom house or bungalow on a section of around a quarter of an acre also known locally as the Australian Dream or the New Zealand Dream.
Quarter Eagle The quarter eagle was a coin issued by the United States with a denomination of two hundred and fifty cents, or two dollars and fifty cents. Its name was derived from the US ten-dollar coin, which was called an "eagle".
Quarter farthing (British coin) The quarter farthing was a British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853 (although proof coins were anomalously produced in 1868). It is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom.
Quarter Florin The Quarter Florin or Helm was an attempt by English king Edward III to produce a gold coinage suitable for use in Europe as well as in England (see also Florin or Double Leopard and Half Florin or Leopard). The quarter florin, based on contemporary European gold coins had a value of one shilling and sixpence.
Quarter mile The quarter mile (402 meters, 440 yards, or 1,320 feet) is a distance generally used for drag racing two objects, and it an excellent way to compare the speed and acceleration of two objects. Although a quarter mile is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile tracks.
Quarter note In music, a quarter note (American or "German" terminology) or crotchet (British or "classical" terminology) is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem.
Quarter panel On an automobile, a quarter panel is a body panel that covers the section between the door and the trunk. In most if not all countries, for example the United Kingdom and North America, the term is only used to refer to the rear panels.
Quarter pipe A Quarter pipe is a ramp used in extreme sports which resembles a quarter of the cross section of a pipe. They are most commonly found in Skateparks, although the trained eye of an Extreme Sports fan can find them in modern day architecture.
Quarter Pounder A Quarter Pounder is a McDonald's hamburger made from approximately 1/4 pound (4 ounces or 114 grams) of beef, weighed before cooking. It was introduced in Fremont, California in 1971-1972 and became part of the national menu in 1973.
Quarter Sawing Quarter Sawn lumber possess advantages over plain sawn lumber because of the orientation of the growth rings. Because the growth rings in quarter-sawn wood run uniformly parallel along the entire board the wood does not shrink and expand with seasonal variation in moisture as much as flat sawn wood.
Quarter Sessions The Courts of Quarter Sessions or Quarter Sessions were periodic courts held in each county and county borough in England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Assize courts they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court of England and Wales.
Quarter tense Quarter tense (called in all other English speaking countries "ember days") is a uniquely Irish name for those days set aside in the western Christian church for prayer and fasting to sanctify the liturgical seasons. They are of very ancient and uncertain origin, though are generally believed to have originated in Rome.
Quarter Video Graphics Array The Quarter Video Graphics Array (also known as Quarter VGA or QVGA) is a popular term for a computer display with 320 Ă— 240 resolution. QVGA displays are most often seen in mobile phones, PDAs and some handheld game consoles.
Quarter-comma meantone Quarter-comma meantone was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this tuning the perfect fifth is tempered by one quarter of a syntonic comma in order to obtain just major thirds (5:4).
Quarter-life crisis The 'quarterlife crisis' (QLC) is a term applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the ages of 21 - 29. The term is named by analogy with mid-life crisis.
Quarterback kneel In American football, a quarterback kneel, also called taking a knee, occurs when the quarterback immediately kneels to the ground after receiving the snap. It is primarily used to run the clock down, either at the end of the first half or the game itself, in order to preserve a lead or a win.
Quarterback Princess Quarterback Princess is a 1983 fact-based drama by 20th Century Fox that chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who struggles against sexism and fights to play on her high school football team.
Quarterback sack In American football and Canadian football, a quarterback sack occurs when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a forward pass. This often occurs if the opposing team's defensive line or linebackers are able to quickly get past blocking players of the offensive team, the quarterback's protection; or if the quarterback is unable to find, in a reasonable amount of time, an available eligible receiver including Running Backs and Tight Ends who can catch the ball, allowing the defense a longer opportunity to tackle the quarterback.
Quarterflash Quarterflash is a pop-rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. The band was made up of lead singer and saxophonist Rindy Ross, her husband guitarist Marv Ross, guitarist Jack Charles, keyboardist Rick DiGiallonardo, bassist Rich Gooch and drummer Brian David Willis.
Quartering (heraldry) Quartering in heraldry is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into not more than four equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division.
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is a scholarly, refereed journal published quarterly by Transaction Periodicals Consortium and the Mises Institute. The QJAE was founded in 1998, but it is recognized as a continuation of the Review of Austrian Economics, which was founded by Murray Rothbard in 1987 and edited by Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Walter Block, and Joseph Salerno.
Quarterly Journal of Economics The Quarterly Journal of Economics, or QJE, is an economics journal published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics. Its current editors are Robert J.
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is a Singapore literary journal founded by Toh Hsien Min in 2001. The journal is structured as a non-profit volunteer collective, and publishes poetry, short stories, essays, criticism and interviews, among others, from writers in Singapore and abroad.
Quarterly Review Quarterly Review was a review journal started by John Murray, the celebrated London publisher, in March 1809 (though it bore a title page date of February), in rivalry with the Edinburgh Review, which had been seven years in possession of the field, and was exerting, as he judged, an evil influence on public opinion; in this enterprise he was seconded by George Canning, Robert Southey, and Walter Scott, the more cordially that the Edinburgh Review had given offence to the latter by its criticism of "Marmion." It was founded in the Canningite Tory interest for the defence of Church and State, and it had William Gifford for its first editor, while the contributors included, besides Southey and Scott, all the ablest literary celebrities on the Tory side, of which the most zealous and frequent was John Wilson Croker.
Quartermain Glacier Quartermain Glacier () is a well-defined, highly-crevassed glacier on the north side of Fricker Glacier, from which it is separated in its upper reaches by Mount Kennett. It flows from the plateau into Mill Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Leslie B.
Quartermain Mountains Quartermain Mountains () is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 miles (32 km) long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including Knobhead, Terra Cotta Mountain, New Mountain, Beacon Heights, Pyramid Mountain, Arena Valley, Kennar Valley, Turnabout Valley and the several valleys and ridges within Beacon Valley. The mountains were visited by British expeditions led by R.
Quartermaster Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military individual, or unit, who specializes in supplying and provisioning troops. In nautical usage it is a completely different specialization and it means a navigator on a ship and is derived from the phrase master of the quarterdeck as the helm was located in the quarterdeck.
Quartermaster Harbor Quartermaster Harbor is a small harbor located in southern Puget Sound, in Vashon Island, Washington State. It is home to Quartermaster Yacht Club and Quartermaster Marina, both of which house many different private motor and sailing yachts and smaller boats.
Quarters Quarters is a popular drinking game which involves players bouncing a quarter off of a table in an attempt to have the quarter land, usually into a shotglass (or cup) on that table. The game is popular at parties, especially in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Quarters of Luxembourg City The Quarters of Luxembourg City (Luxembourgish: Quartierën, French: Quartiers, German: Stadttiels) are the smallest administrative division for local government in Luxembourg City, the capital and largest city in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Quarterstaff A quarterstaff is a medieval English variant of the staff weapon, consisting of a long shaft of hardwood, sometimes with metal-reinforced tips. The name is frequently used incorrectly for the fighting staves of other cultures, such as the Japanese bo, Chinese gùn, or French bâton.
Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth is an interactive fiction computer role-playing game developed by Scott Schmitz and Ken Updike and released by Infocom for Macintosh in 1988. The game features a text parser, graphics, a dynamically updated map, and a graphical interface that incorporates Mac OS hierarchical menus.
Quartet (1981 film) Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith and Alan Bates set in 1924 Paris. Premiere at Cannes Film Festival entry for Selection Officiel (Official Selection) and won Best actress for Isabelle Adjani.
Quartet in Autumn Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was Pym's comeback novel after fifteen years of publishing rejections, following a successful record as a novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Quartet on the Middle East The Quartet on the Middle East, sometimes called the Diplomatic Quartet or simply the Quartet, is a foursome of nations and international and supranational entities involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Quartet includes the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations.
Quartet-X Quartet X is a South Korean string quartet, that performs contemporary classical music, experimental music, classical music, and pop music. Quartet-X seeks to update the traditional image of a classical ensemble through innovative programming, stylish presentation, and performance in non-traditional venues such as subway stations and other public spaces.
Quarteto em Cy Quarteto em Cy is a quartet of Salvadorean sisters from the Tropicalia musical movement in Brazil. They first became known for their collaborations with Vinicius de Moraes, and later worked with a number of other composers from the movement.
Quartets (Fred Frith album) Quartets is a 1994 studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It consists of two compositions by Frith, "Lelekovice String Quartet #1", performed by the Violet Wires String Quartet, and "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not", performed by an electric guitar quartet.
Quartetto Gelato Quartetto Gelato is a Canadian new classical quartet currently composed of Peter DeSotto, Elinor Frey, Alexander Sevastian and Shalom Bard, and based in Toronto, Ontario. Debuting in 1994 with founding members Cynthia Steljes, Peter DeSotto, George Meanwell, and Claudio Vena, Quartetto Gelato quickly established themselves on the emerging "new classical" scene early in their career by winning the title of NPR Performance Today's Debut Artist of the Year in 1996.
Quarth Quarth is a hybrid puzzle game/shoot 'em up developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game, sold as Block Hole outside Japan. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX (with a built-in SCC chip), Famicom/NES, and Game Boy - home releases used the "Quarth" name worldwide.
Quartic interaction In quantum field theory, a quartic interaction is a theory about a scalar field φ which contains an interaction term phi^4, and is considered by many teachers and students to be the simplest example of interacting fields. This theory consists of subtracting a frac{lambda}{4!
Quartier international de Montréal The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreal's International District is an area of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003. While several of the new structures were controversial during construction, the finished product is held by many as one of the finest examples of urban design in Canada.
Quartier Latin (Montreal) The Quartier Latin is an area in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, surrounding UQAM and lower Saint-Denis Street, between downtown and the Village gai. It is known for its theatres, artistic atmosphere, cafés, and boutiques.
Quartier Pigalle Pigalle is an area in Paris around Place Pigalle (a plaza) on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements, named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785). The area is famous for being a touristic red-light district, with many sex shops on Place Pigalle and the main boulevards and prostitutes operating in the side streets.
Quartiere A quartiere (plural: quartieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns. The word is from quarto, or fourth, and is thus properly used only for towns divided into four neighborhoods; from it is derived the English word "quarter" to mean a neighborhood.
Quartodecimanism Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism", derived from Latin) refers to the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the fourteenth day of Nisan in the Old Testament's Hebrew Calendar (for example , in Latin "quarta decima"). This was the original method of fixing the date of the Passover, which is to be a "perpetual ordinance"Exodus 12:14 NRSV.
Quartz (band) Quartz are the Swedish dance production duo of Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel. They are well known for their collaboration with Clubland on "Let's Get Busy" which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1990.
Quartz crystal microbalance A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) (or piezoelectric microbalance) measures mass by measuring the change in frequency of a piezoelectric quartz crystal when it is disturbed by the addition of a small mass such as a virus or any other tiny object intended to be measured. It can work under vacuum or liquid environment thus making it useful to determine the properties of polymers and adhesion of proteins.
Quartz Compositor Quartz Compositor is the windowing system that is responsible for the user interface in Mac OS X. On a Mac OS X system, the Quartz Compositor can be seen in a process list as Window Manager or, in more recent versions, WindowServer.
Quartz diorite Quartz diorite is an igneous, plutonic (intrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with phaneritic texture. Feldspar is present as plagioclase (typically oligoclase or andesine) with 10% or less potassium feldspar.
Quartz Fluorine Tube Quartz Fluorine Vessel Fluorine is the most reactive and electronegative substance known to man, therefore specialized containers must be prepared to hold and view the gas. The preparation of these vessels is delicate and labor intensive, but well worth the time.
Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Quartz Hill, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD).
Quartz Hills Quartz Hills () is an arcuate group of mainly ice-free hills and peaks standing immediately south of Colorado Glacier along the west side of Reedy Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.
Quartz monzonite Quartz monzonite is an intrusive igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. The plagioclase is typically intermediate to sodic in composition, andesine to oligoclase.
Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center The Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center is a resort located 17 miles north of Altus in the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma near the Texas border in the town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. It is located next to the Quartz Mountain Nature Park and is home to a collection of art owned by the Oklahoma Arts Institute but on permanent loan to the state of Oklahoma for display at Quartz Mountain Resort.
Quartz-porphyry Quartz-porphyry, in petrology, is the name given to a group of hemi-crystalline acid rocks containing porphyritic crystals of quartz in a more fine-grained matrix which is usually of micro-crystalline or felsitic structure. In the hand specimens the quartz appears as small rounded, clear, greyish, vitreous blebs, which are crystals, double hexagonal pyramids, with their edges and corners rounded by resorption or corrosion.
Quantum Theology Quantum Theology is a 1997 book by Diarmuid O'Murchu, a priest and social psychologist from the British Isles. O'Murchu discusses how certain concepts from the modern quantum theory may point to deep spiritual truths, while admitting that this interpretation does not ring true to mainstream scientists:
Quantum vibration A quantum vibration is a vibration of a chemical bond in a molecule that must be treated quantum mechanically. The low-lying vibration energy states can be described as states of the quantum harmonic oscillator, and at higher vibrational states, near the bond disassociation limit, as Morse oscillators.
Quantum virtual machine A Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) is a virtual machine which emulates a quantum computer. It provides a structure for a quantum register (the memory of a quantum computer) and operations for the manipulation of a quantum register.
Quantum vortex A quantum vortex is a topological defect exhibited in superfluids and superconductors. The existence of these quantum vortices were independently predicted by Richard Feynman and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov in the 1950s.
Quantum well A quantum well is a potential well that confines particles, which were originally free to move in three dimensions, to two dimensions, forcing them to occupy a planar region. The effects of quantum confinement take place when the quantum well thickness becomes comparable at the de Broglie wavelength of the carriers (generally electrons and holes), leading to energy levels called "energy subbands", i.
Quantum well infrared photodetector A quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP), is an infrared photodetector made from semiconductor materials which contain one or more quantum wells. These can be integrated together with electronics and optics to make infrared cameras for thermography.
Quantum wire In condensed matter physics, a quantum wire is an electrically conducting wire, in which quantum effects are affecting transport properties. Due to the confinement of conduction electrons in the transverse direction of the wire, their transverse energy is quantized into a series of discrete values E_0 ("ground state" energy, with lower value), E_1,...
Quantum yield The quantum yield of a radiation-induced process is the number of times that a defined event (usually a chemical reaction step) occurs per photon absorbed by the system. Thus, the quantum yield is a measure of the efficiency with which absorbed light produces some effect.
Quantum Zeno effect The quantum Zeno effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon first described by George Sudarshan and Baidyanaith Misra of the University of Texas in 1977. It describes the situation that an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay.
Quantum3D Quantum3D was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from 3dfx that was created to bring 3dfx's scalable graphics technologies (the Voodoo family of graphics chips) to the game enthusiast, coin-op/arcade/LBE and visual simulation and training market. Founded by 3dfx and SGI co-founders, the company has developed a range of 3dfx and now NVIDIA-based board level and system level products for advanced, realtime 3D graphics and video intensive applications.
QuantumLink Serial The QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed on AOL (1988-89) was the first episodic online story. The series was also known as the PC-Link Serial and the AppleLink Serial before all three services were unified when Quantum changed its name to AOL.
Quanzhen School The Quanzhen School(Chinese: 全真派; pinyin: quán zhēn pà i) or Complete Perfection School is a major sect of Taoism that originated in China. It was founded by a Taoist priest, Wang Chongyang in the 12th century during the rise of the Jurchens of Jin Dynasty.
Quanzhou Quanzhou () is a prefecture-level city] in southeastern [[Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders all other prefecture-level cities in Fujian but two (Ningde and Nanping) and faces the Taiwan Strait.
Quaoar (mythology) Quaoar (pronounced kwaa'·waar or kwow'·ər, English ) is the name of a creation deity of the Native American Tongva people, native to the area around Los Angeles, California. According to Tongva mythology, Quaoar sings and dances the world and other deities into existence.
Quapaw Quarter, Little Rock, Arkansas The Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock, Arkansas is a section of the city including its oldest and most historic business and residential neighborhoods. The name of the area was first given in 1961, honoring the Quapaw Indians who once lived in the area centuries ago.
Quaqtaq, Quebec Quaqtaq (population 307) is an Inuit village in Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada. The village is one of the northernmost inhabited places in Quebec, located on the eastern shore of Diana Bay (Tuvaaluk in the Inuktitut language), on a peninsula which protrudes into the Hudson Strait where it meets Ungava Bay.
Quaquerni The Quaquerni were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, province of Minho, in the mountains at the mouths of the rivers Tâmega and Cávado.
QuaraĂ River The QuaraĂ River (Portuguese Rio QuaraĂ, Spanish RĂo Cuareim) is a tributary of the Uruguay River. The river originates in the Coxilha de Santana, an area of low-lying hills, and runs westward to join the Uruguay.
Quarai The Quarai were a Tiguex Puebloan band of American Indians that originated in present-day New Mexico. Because of Apache hostilities they fled to El Paso in around 1675; later they moved to Isleta del Sur on the Rio Grande.
Quarantine (computer game) Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter computer game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek. In the game the player drivers a taxicab through a post-apocalyptic city, while picking up customers and killing enemies.
Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) Scott Wilson is a SDI weapons designer who is reanimated into an unknown future after being cryogenically frozen for an incurable illness for three centuries. He is greeted by Tess Harper, a telepathic woman of the future who not only performs psychic surgery on him to cure his disease, but introduces him to the agrarian post apocalypse community she lives in.
Quarantine Speech The Quarantine Speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and isolationism that was prevalent at the time. The speech intensified America's isolationist mood, causing protest by isolationists and foes to intervention.
Quarantine technology In December, 1988, shortly after the Morris Worm, Jay Nickson started work on Quarantine, an anti-malware and file reliability product. released in April, 1989, Quarantine was the first such product to use file signature instead of viral signature methods.
Quararibea asterolepis Quararibea asterolepis (Cinco dedos, Guácimo molenillo, Guayabillo, Garrocho, Molenillo, Panula, Palo cuadrado; syn. Quararibea stenophylla Pittier) is a timber tree native to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
Quarashi Quarashi was a rap/hip-hop group from ReykjavĂk, Iceland. It was comprised of Hössi Ă“lafsson (replaced by Tiny (real name Egill Ă“lafur Thorarensen) on the final album), who was the lead vocalist and frontman of the group, Omar Swarez (Ă“mar Ă–rn Hauksson), who served as a rapper and hype man, and Steini a.
Quarashi (album) Quarashi is the debut hip hop album by the group of the same name, released on October 13, 1997 in Iceland (see 1997 in music). Already popular in Iceland thanks to the EP, Switchstance, Quarashi released their first full-length album with more of the hip-hop infused rock, techno, and funk that brought them fame in the first place.
Quarff Primary School Quarff Primary School, Shetlands, was a school that existed from 1879 until it was closed in 2003, due to a lack of interest in the position of headmaster. The 17 students at the school were forced to move to Cunningsburgh School, where their former headmistress was working.
Quark (anthology series) Quark was an anthology book series devoted to avant-garde science fiction and related material, edited by fiction-writer and critic Samuel Delany and poet and editor Marilyn Hacker; four volumes were published in 1970 and 1971. The editors, once married, were among the foremost homosexual activist/writers in the following decades.
Quark (kernel) The Quark kernel used in MorphOS is a microkernel designed to run totally virtualized computers, called "boxes" (see sandbox). Currently only one "Box" is available, the ABox, that lets users run old AmigaOS software compiled for MC680x0 processors.
Quark (Star Trek) Quark, son of Keldar and Ishka, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman, and a regular for the show's seven-year run. A member of the ultra-capitalist Ferengi, Quark owned a bar on the Promenade of Deep Space Nine.
Quark model In physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks, ie, the quarks (and antiquarks) which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. These quantum numbers are labels identifying the hadrons, and are of two kinds.
Quark Publishing System The Quark Publishing System (commonly know as acronym QPS) is a workflow mangagement system, mostly used by magazine editorial staffs but also occasionally found at newspapers, book publishers, catalog companies, advertising agencies and others.
Quark star A quark star or strange star is a hypothetical type of star composed of quark matter, or strange matter. These are ultra-dense phases of degenerate matter theorized to form inside particularly massive neutron stars.
Quark-gluon plasma A quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a phase of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which exists at extremely high temperature and density. It is believed to have existed during the first 20 or 30 microseconds after the universe came into existence in the Big Bang.
Quark, Strangeness and Charm (single) Quark, Strangeness and Charm is a 1977 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind. It was originally released as a single in the UK (CB305) on 29 July 1977, being a slightly different version to the one on the album Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science was an educational computer game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS in early 1992. It was designed to teach scientific concepts to children.
Quarles Range Quarles Range () is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper and Bowman Glaciers and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Peaks in the range were first sighted by Captain Roald Amundsen in 1911, and the range was mapped in detail by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30.
Quarr Abbey House The Quarr Abbey House of the early 20th century was one of several of fine houses constructed along the north coast of the Isle of Wight in southern England. It was built with stone from the ruins of a Norman abbey on the site.
Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (French: querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) was a literary and artistic quarrel that heated up in the early 1690s and shook the Académie française. It opposed two sides:
Quarrendon Upper School Quarrendon Upper School, formerly Quarrendon County Secondary School, is a mixed, non-selective secondary school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 16.
Quarry Bay Quarry Bay (é°‚éšć¶Ś; literally Crucian Carp Stream or River or çźłç¤¦çŁ / 採石çŁ) is an area beneath Mount Parker in Eastern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The western portion of the area was also formerly known as Lai Chi (éş—ć± ).
Quarry, Newfoundland and Labrador Quarry is an abandoned railway community that was located in the Gaff Topsails area of the province of Newfoundland, Canada. The community lies just north of Buchans and takes its name from the quarry established in the 1890's when the Newfoundland Railway was being built.
Quartell Quartell is a small town and municipality in the fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Province of Valencia in eastern Spain. It is close to the sea, thirty five kilometers north of the provincial capital city Valencia, and ten kilometers north of Sagunto.
Quarter Acre In Australian and New Zealand English, a Quarter Acre is a term for a suburban plot of land. Traditionally, Australians and Kiwis aspire to own a 3- or 4-bedroom house or bungalow on a section of around a quarter of an acre also known locally as the Australian Dream or the New Zealand Dream.
Quarter Eagle The quarter eagle was a coin issued by the United States with a denomination of two hundred and fifty cents, or two dollars and fifty cents. Its name was derived from the US ten-dollar coin, which was called an "eagle".
Quarter farthing (British coin) The quarter farthing was a British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853 (although proof coins were anomalously produced in 1868). It is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom.
Quarter Florin The Quarter Florin or Helm was an attempt by English king Edward III to produce a gold coinage suitable for use in Europe as well as in England (see also Florin or Double Leopard and Half Florin or Leopard). The quarter florin, based on contemporary European gold coins had a value of one shilling and sixpence.
Quarter mile The quarter mile (402 meters, 440 yards, or 1,320 feet) is a distance generally used for drag racing two objects, and it an excellent way to compare the speed and acceleration of two objects. Although a quarter mile is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile tracks.
Quarter note In music, a quarter note (American or "German" terminology) or crotchet (British or "classical" terminology) is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem.
Quarter panel On an automobile, a quarter panel is a body panel that covers the section between the door and the trunk. In most if not all countries, for example the United Kingdom and North America, the term is only used to refer to the rear panels.
Quarter pipe A Quarter pipe is a ramp used in extreme sports which resembles a quarter of the cross section of a pipe. They are most commonly found in Skateparks, although the trained eye of an Extreme Sports fan can find them in modern day architecture.
Quarter Pounder A Quarter Pounder is a McDonald's hamburger made from approximately 1/4 pound (4 ounces or 114 grams) of beef, weighed before cooking. It was introduced in Fremont, California in 1971-1972 and became part of the national menu in 1973.
Quarter Sawing Quarter Sawn lumber possess advantages over plain sawn lumber because of the orientation of the growth rings. Because the growth rings in quarter-sawn wood run uniformly parallel along the entire board the wood does not shrink and expand with seasonal variation in moisture as much as flat sawn wood.
Quarter Sessions The Courts of Quarter Sessions or Quarter Sessions were periodic courts held in each county and county borough in England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Assize courts they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court of England and Wales.
Quarter tense Quarter tense (called in all other English speaking countries "ember days") is a uniquely Irish name for those days set aside in the western Christian church for prayer and fasting to sanctify the liturgical seasons. They are of very ancient and uncertain origin, though are generally believed to have originated in Rome.
Quarter Video Graphics Array The Quarter Video Graphics Array (also known as Quarter VGA or QVGA) is a popular term for a computer display with 320 Ă— 240 resolution. QVGA displays are most often seen in mobile phones, PDAs and some handheld game consoles.
Quarter-comma meantone Quarter-comma meantone was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this tuning the perfect fifth is tempered by one quarter of a syntonic comma in order to obtain just major thirds (5:4).
Quarter-life crisis The 'quarterlife crisis' (QLC) is a term applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the ages of 21 - 29. The term is named by analogy with mid-life crisis.
Quarterback kneel In American football, a quarterback kneel, also called taking a knee, occurs when the quarterback immediately kneels to the ground after receiving the snap. It is primarily used to run the clock down, either at the end of the first half or the game itself, in order to preserve a lead or a win.
Quarterback Princess Quarterback Princess is a 1983 fact-based drama by 20th Century Fox that chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who struggles against sexism and fights to play on her high school football team.
Quarterback sack In American football and Canadian football, a quarterback sack occurs when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a forward pass. This often occurs if the opposing team's defensive line or linebackers are able to quickly get past blocking players of the offensive team, the quarterback's protection; or if the quarterback is unable to find, in a reasonable amount of time, an available eligible receiver including Running Backs and Tight Ends who can catch the ball, allowing the defense a longer opportunity to tackle the quarterback.
Quarterflash Quarterflash is a pop-rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. The band was made up of lead singer and saxophonist Rindy Ross, her husband guitarist Marv Ross, guitarist Jack Charles, keyboardist Rick DiGiallonardo, bassist Rich Gooch and drummer Brian David Willis.
Quartering (heraldry) Quartering in heraldry is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into not more than four equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division.
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is a scholarly, refereed journal published quarterly by Transaction Periodicals Consortium and the Mises Institute. The QJAE was founded in 1998, but it is recognized as a continuation of the Review of Austrian Economics, which was founded by Murray Rothbard in 1987 and edited by Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Walter Block, and Joseph Salerno.
Quarterly Journal of Economics The Quarterly Journal of Economics, or QJE, is an economics journal published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics. Its current editors are Robert J.
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is a Singapore literary journal founded by Toh Hsien Min in 2001. The journal is structured as a non-profit volunteer collective, and publishes poetry, short stories, essays, criticism and interviews, among others, from writers in Singapore and abroad.
Quarterly Review Quarterly Review was a review journal started by John Murray, the celebrated London publisher, in March 1809 (though it bore a title page date of February), in rivalry with the Edinburgh Review, which had been seven years in possession of the field, and was exerting, as he judged, an evil influence on public opinion; in this enterprise he was seconded by George Canning, Robert Southey, and Walter Scott, the more cordially that the Edinburgh Review had given offence to the latter by its criticism of "Marmion." It was founded in the Canningite Tory interest for the defence of Church and State, and it had William Gifford for its first editor, while the contributors included, besides Southey and Scott, all the ablest literary celebrities on the Tory side, of which the most zealous and frequent was John Wilson Croker.
Quartermain Glacier Quartermain Glacier () is a well-defined, highly-crevassed glacier on the north side of Fricker Glacier, from which it is separated in its upper reaches by Mount Kennett. It flows from the plateau into Mill Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Leslie B.
Quartermain Mountains Quartermain Mountains () is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 miles (32 km) long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including Knobhead, Terra Cotta Mountain, New Mountain, Beacon Heights, Pyramid Mountain, Arena Valley, Kennar Valley, Turnabout Valley and the several valleys and ridges within Beacon Valley. The mountains were visited by British expeditions led by R.
Quartermaster Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military individual, or unit, who specializes in supplying and provisioning troops. In nautical usage it is a completely different specialization and it means a navigator on a ship and is derived from the phrase master of the quarterdeck as the helm was located in the quarterdeck.
Quartermaster Harbor Quartermaster Harbor is a small harbor located in southern Puget Sound, in Vashon Island, Washington State. It is home to Quartermaster Yacht Club and Quartermaster Marina, both of which house many different private motor and sailing yachts and smaller boats.
Quarters Quarters is a popular drinking game which involves players bouncing a quarter off of a table in an attempt to have the quarter land, usually into a shotglass (or cup) on that table. The game is popular at parties, especially in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Quarters of Luxembourg City The Quarters of Luxembourg City (Luxembourgish: Quartierën, French: Quartiers, German: Stadttiels) are the smallest administrative division for local government in Luxembourg City, the capital and largest city in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Quarterstaff A quarterstaff is a medieval English variant of the staff weapon, consisting of a long shaft of hardwood, sometimes with metal-reinforced tips. The name is frequently used incorrectly for the fighting staves of other cultures, such as the Japanese bo, Chinese gùn, or French bâton.
Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth is an interactive fiction computer role-playing game developed by Scott Schmitz and Ken Updike and released by Infocom for Macintosh in 1988. The game features a text parser, graphics, a dynamically updated map, and a graphical interface that incorporates Mac OS hierarchical menus.
Quartet (1981 film) Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith and Alan Bates set in 1924 Paris. Premiere at Cannes Film Festival entry for Selection Officiel (Official Selection) and won Best actress for Isabelle Adjani.
Quartet in Autumn Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was Pym's comeback novel after fifteen years of publishing rejections, following a successful record as a novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Quartet on the Middle East The Quartet on the Middle East, sometimes called the Diplomatic Quartet or simply the Quartet, is a foursome of nations and international and supranational entities involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Quartet includes the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations.
Quartet-X Quartet X is a South Korean string quartet, that performs contemporary classical music, experimental music, classical music, and pop music. Quartet-X seeks to update the traditional image of a classical ensemble through innovative programming, stylish presentation, and performance in non-traditional venues such as subway stations and other public spaces.
Quarteto em Cy Quarteto em Cy is a quartet of Salvadorean sisters from the Tropicalia musical movement in Brazil. They first became known for their collaborations with Vinicius de Moraes, and later worked with a number of other composers from the movement.
Quartets (Fred Frith album) Quartets is a 1994 studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It consists of two compositions by Frith, "Lelekovice String Quartet #1", performed by the Violet Wires String Quartet, and "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not", performed by an electric guitar quartet.
Quartetto Gelato Quartetto Gelato is a Canadian new classical quartet currently composed of Peter DeSotto, Elinor Frey, Alexander Sevastian and Shalom Bard, and based in Toronto, Ontario. Debuting in 1994 with founding members Cynthia Steljes, Peter DeSotto, George Meanwell, and Claudio Vena, Quartetto Gelato quickly established themselves on the emerging "new classical" scene early in their career by winning the title of NPR Performance Today's Debut Artist of the Year in 1996.
Quarth Quarth is a hybrid puzzle game/shoot 'em up developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game, sold as Block Hole outside Japan. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX (with a built-in SCC chip), Famicom/NES, and Game Boy - home releases used the "Quarth" name worldwide.
Quartic interaction In quantum field theory, a quartic interaction is a theory about a scalar field φ which contains an interaction term phi^4, and is considered by many teachers and students to be the simplest example of interacting fields. This theory consists of subtracting a frac{lambda}{4!
Quartier international de Montréal The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreal's International District is an area of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003. While several of the new structures were controversial during construction, the finished product is held by many as one of the finest examples of urban design in Canada.
Quartier Latin (Montreal) The Quartier Latin is an area in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, surrounding UQAM and lower Saint-Denis Street, between downtown and the Village gai. It is known for its theatres, artistic atmosphere, cafés, and boutiques.
Quartier Pigalle Pigalle is an area in Paris around Place Pigalle (a plaza) on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements, named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785). The area is famous for being a touristic red-light district, with many sex shops on Place Pigalle and the main boulevards and prostitutes operating in the side streets.
Quartiere A quartiere (plural: quartieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns. The word is from quarto, or fourth, and is thus properly used only for towns divided into four neighborhoods; from it is derived the English word "quarter" to mean a neighborhood.
Quartodecimanism Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism", derived from Latin) refers to the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the fourteenth day of Nisan in the Old Testament's Hebrew Calendar (for example , in Latin "quarta decima"). This was the original method of fixing the date of the Passover, which is to be a "perpetual ordinance"Exodus 12:14 NRSV.
Quartz (band) Quartz are the Swedish dance production duo of Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel. They are well known for their collaboration with Clubland on "Let's Get Busy" which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1990.
Quartz crystal microbalance A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) (or piezoelectric microbalance) measures mass by measuring the change in frequency of a piezoelectric quartz crystal when it is disturbed by the addition of a small mass such as a virus or any other tiny object intended to be measured. It can work under vacuum or liquid environment thus making it useful to determine the properties of polymers and adhesion of proteins.
Quartz Compositor Quartz Compositor is the windowing system that is responsible for the user interface in Mac OS X. On a Mac OS X system, the Quartz Compositor can be seen in a process list as Window Manager or, in more recent versions, WindowServer.
Quartz diorite Quartz diorite is an igneous, plutonic (intrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with phaneritic texture. Feldspar is present as plagioclase (typically oligoclase or andesine) with 10% or less potassium feldspar.
Quartz Fluorine Tube Quartz Fluorine Vessel Fluorine is the most reactive and electronegative substance known to man, therefore specialized containers must be prepared to hold and view the gas. The preparation of these vessels is delicate and labor intensive, but well worth the time.
Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Quartz Hill, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD).
Quartz Hills Quartz Hills () is an arcuate group of mainly ice-free hills and peaks standing immediately south of Colorado Glacier along the west side of Reedy Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.
Quartz monzonite Quartz monzonite is an intrusive igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. The plagioclase is typically intermediate to sodic in composition, andesine to oligoclase.
Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center The Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center is a resort located 17 miles north of Altus in the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma near the Texas border in the town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. It is located next to the Quartz Mountain Nature Park and is home to a collection of art owned by the Oklahoma Arts Institute but on permanent loan to the state of Oklahoma for display at Quartz Mountain Resort.
Quartz-porphyry Quartz-porphyry, in petrology, is the name given to a group of hemi-crystalline acid rocks containing porphyritic crystals of quartz in a more fine-grained matrix which is usually of micro-crystalline or felsitic structure. In the hand specimens the quartz appears as small rounded, clear, greyish, vitreous blebs, which are crystals, double hexagonal pyramids, with their edges and corners rounded by resorption or corrosion.
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