QC
Encyclopedia
In Commonwealth
countries, QC refers to Queen's Counsel
, a distinguished and experienced legal practitioner.
QC may also refer to:
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
countries, QC refers to Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
, a distinguished and experienced legal practitioner.
QC may also refer to:
- QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
Canada Post provincial abbreviation - Quad CitiesQuad CitiesThe Quad Cities is a group of five cities straddling the Mississippi River on the Iowa–Illinois boundary. These cities, Davenport and Bettendorf and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline , are the center of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, which, as of 2010, had an estimated population of...
, a group of four cities on the Mississippi river, on both sides of the Iowa/Illinois border - Quality controlQuality controlQuality control, or QC for short, is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. This approach places an emphasis on three aspects:...
, the process of meeting products and services to consumer expectations - Quantum cascade, as in quantum cascade laserQuantum cascade laserQuantum cascade lasers are semiconductor lasers that emit in the mid- to far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and were first demonstrated by Jerome Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson, and Alfred Cho at Bell Laboratories in 1994.Unlike typical...
- Quantum ChemistryQuantum chemistryQuantum chemistry is a branch of chemistry whose primary focus is the application of quantum mechanics in physical models and experiments of chemical systems...
, the application of Ab-initio Quantum Mechanical methods to the field of chemistry. - Quantum computerQuantum computerA quantum computer is a device for computation that makes direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. Quantum computers are different from traditional computers based on transistors...
, a computing device that uses the principles of quantum mechanics - Quartz ComposerQuartz ComposerQuartz Composer is a node-based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in Mac OS X for processing and rendering graphical data....
, a node based visual programming language - Quay Crane, a craneCrane (machine)A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It uses one or more simple machines to create mechanical advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of...
located on a quaysideQuaysideThe Quayside is an area along the banks of the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead in the North East of England, United Kingdom.... - Quebec Central RailwayQuebec Central RailwayThe Quebec Central Railway was a railway in the Canadian province of Quebec, that served the area of Quebec called the Eastern Townships, south of the St. Lawrence River. Its headquarters was in Sherbrooke. It was originally incorporated in 1869 as the Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships and Kennebec...
- QualiEd CollegeQualiEd CollegeQualiEd College is a secondary school established in 2003 in Hong Kong by the QualiEd Educational Organization. It was approved by the Education Bureau to be managed under Man Kwan Educational Organization starting from 1 December 2009. The school was located at 2, Kan Hok Lane, Tiu Keng Leng,...
, a school in Hong Kong - Queen's College (disambiguation), the name of multiple institutions
- QuakeCQuakeCQuakeC is an interpreted language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the computer game Quake. Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize Quake to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and physics, and programming complex scenarios...
, an interpreted scripting language implemented in the computer game Quake by ID Software - "Queen's Court", the oldest building on the Fordham UniversityFordham UniversityFordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...
campus, located in the Bronx, New York City - Queens Counsel (comic strip)Queens Counsel (comic strip)Queens Counsel is a British cartoon strip created by Alexander Williams and Graham Francis Defries.It first appeared in law pages of The Times in 1993, where it has been featured ever since...
, a cartoon strip featured in the law pages of The Times - Queer CollaborationsQueer CollaborationsQueer Collaborations is a national Australian Queer conference. The conference is held annually, usually in July. In recent years, the conference has attracted over 200 delegates....
, the annual Australian predominately student gay conference - Questionable ContentQuestionable ContentQuestionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
, a web-comic by Jeph Jacques - Quezon CityQuezon CityQuezon City is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L...
, in the Philippines - Quota count systemQuota Count systemQuota Count is a system used in the UK by London's Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted airports to limit the amount of noise generated by aircraft movements at night time .- Description :...
, a system to limit the amount of noise generated by night-time aircraft movements - HP Quality CenterHP Quality CenterHP Quality Center is a set of web-based test management software offerings from the HP Software Division of Hewlett-Packard, many of which were acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation. HP Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management...
, a web-based Test Management Tool by Mercury (now Hewlett-Packard) - ATCvet code QC Cardiovascular system, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System for veterinary medicinal products