PQ

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PQ may refer to:

Places

• Province of Quebec, the largest province of Canada by area
• Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego, informally

Politics and law

• Parti Québécois, a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada
• Parliamentary question, a question posed during Question time in a Westminster system legislature
• Previous question, a motion in Robert's Rules of Order to close debate

Computing and electronics

• Perceptual Quantizer, a transfer function for video display
• Picture quality; see video quality
• Power quality, the set of limits of electrical properties
• Priority queue, an abstract data structure

Software

• PowerQuest, a producer of computer HDD software tools for the DOS/Windows platform
• Priority queuing, a data packet scheduling technique
• libpq, a C library for the PostgreSQL database

Videogames

• Police Quest, a video game series
  • Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987 video game), first game in the series
• PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient (2005 video game), first game in the series
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, a 2014 video game

Science, technology, and mathematics

Psychology

• Play Quotient, a theory in child development developed by Stevanne Auerbach
• Precision questioning, an intellectual toolkit for critical thinking and for problem solving

Chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology

• Performance qualification, in pharmaceutics, part of verification and validation
• Plastoquinone, a molecule involved in photosynthesis

Other uses

• PQ International, a polo magazine
• PQ, outbound Arctic convoys of World War II

See also

• PQ1 (disambiguation)
• PQ2 (disambiguation)
• PQ3 (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with PQ 

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