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- Q8 – the acronym for these gas stations sounds like Kuwait, that is, the letter Q followed by the number 8. It is the abbreviation for Kuwait Petroleum International Limited.
- Qantas – from its original name, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.
- Qimonda – Qimonda carries different meanings and allows associations in different languages. "Qi" stands for flowing or breathing energy, and it was thought that the combination of the English word "key" and the Latin "mundus" would be intuitively understood in the Western World as "key to the world".
- Quad – an acronym for Quality Unit Amplified Domestic. Quad Electroacoustics was founded in 1936 by Peter Walker, and was formerly called the Acoustical Manufacturing Company.
- Quark – named after the subatomic particle. The word quark originates from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
- Qualcomm – Quality Communication
- QVC – Quality, Value and Convenience
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