Query

In general, a query is a form of questioning, in a line of inquiry. A query may also refer to:

  • The Queries, a set of 31 questions outlined by Isaac Newton beginning in 1704
  • Query (Quaker), a question used for reflection and spiritual exercises among members of the Society of Friends
  • Query (complexity), a mapping from structures of one vocabulary to structures of another vocabulary

In computing:

  • A precise request for information retrieval with database and information systems
    • Query language, a computer language used to make queries into databases and information systems
    • Query string, in the World Wide Web, is an optional part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that follows the first question mark (?)
    • Web search query, a query entered by users into web search engines
  • Command-query separation (CQS), a concept in object-oriented programming, especially in the Eiffel programming language
  • jQuery, a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML

Persons with the surname Query:

  • Jeff Query, an American football player
  • Nate Query, a musician
  • Russell Query, Web Developer

Famous quotes containing the word query:

    “Such condition of suspended judgment indeed, in its more genial development and under felicitous culture, is but the expectation, the receptivity, of the faithful scholar, determined not to foreclose what is still a question—the “philosophic temper,” in short, for which a survival of query will be still the salt of truth, even in the most absolutely ascertained knowledge.”
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)