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q.

The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

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character/kjuː/letter, name/k/phoneme/kw/phoneme
  1. The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

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num/kjuː/letter, name/k/phoneme/kw/phoneme
  1. The seventeenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

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det/kjuː/letter, name/k/phoneme/kw/phoneme
  1. Each, every (with a time interval).

    175 mg/m² q 3 wks
Where this word comes from

From Latin quaque (“every”).

noun/kjuː/letter, name/k/phoneme/kw/phoneme
  1. Abbreviation of non-automatic qualification, indicating an athlete who qualifies to the next round either by time as a fastest loser (in track events) or by position without achieving the qualifying target (in field events).

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  2. Abbreviation of question.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.