PQ

PQ may refer to:

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

Geography

  • Province of Quebec, the largest province of Canada. The abbreviation PQ was replaced by QC in 1992
  • An informal abbreviation for Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego

Military

  • A code for a series of Arctic convoys of World War II

Transportation

  • Pilot Qualified
  • An IATA airline designator for Panafrican Airways

Math and Science

  • Plastoquinone, a molecule used in the electron transport chain in the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis
  • Precision Questioning, a communications theory
  • PQ, a very simple formal system

Business

  • In project management, PQ is an abbreviation for the Performance Qualification

Computers

  • Page Quality, a ranking system where visitors review sites by casting votes
  • Picture Quality, see Video quality
  • Police Quest, an adventure game series
  • PowerQuest, producer of computer HDD software tools for the DOS/Windows platform
  • Productivity Quality Systems, an SPC and quality control software company
  • PQ Systems a statistical process control software company
  • Progress Quest, a parody computer game
  • PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient, a video game
  • Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, a video game
  • Priority queuing, a data packet scheduling technique
  • libpq, a C library for the PostgreSQL database

Music

  • Power Quest, a British power metal band
  • Promenadorquestern, the official student orchestra of the Royal Institute of Technology

Law

  • p.q., pro querente. For the plaintiff; also usually abbreviated, pro quer

Other

  • Play Quotient, a theory pertaining to individuals and the characteristics of toys, games and other playthings
  • Power quality, the set of limits of electrical properties