AQ explained

AQ, Aq, aQ, or aq may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

A. Q. Shipley (Allan Quay Shipley, born 1986), known as AQ, American former football center and coach
A-Q (born 1986), Nigerian rapper
AQ Interactive, a Japanese video game developer
AdventureQuest, a 2002 Web-based game
Australian Quarterly, a journal for political science
Ah Q or A Q, a character in 1921 novella The True Story of Ah Q
Al-Qatala, a fictional group in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series

Businesses and organizations

9 Air, China (IATA:AQ)
Acquity Group, US (NYSE:AQ)
Alliance Quebec, Canada
Aloha Airlines, a defunct US airline (IATA:AQ)
Al-Qaeda, an Islamist militant group
Al-Quds Force, a Iran special forces
Automatic Qualifying conference, in North American college sports

Chemistry

8-Aminoquinoline (AQ), a heterocyclic bidentate ligand
Anthraquinone (AQ), an aromatic organic compound
Aqueous solution (aq), dissolved in water

Computing and telephony

.aq, the Internet domain for Antarctica
Adaptive quantization, a quantization process that provides efficient compression
Oracle Advanced Queuing, a message provider used in the software products of the Oracle Corporation

Places

Ak, Buin Zahra, also spelled Aq, a village in Iran
Antarctica (ISO 3166:AQ)
Academic Quadrangle, at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
American Samoa (DIA 65-18 / FIPS PUB 10-4:AQ)
Antigua and Barbuda, LOC MARC code
L'Aquila, a province of Italy

Psychology

Attribution questionnaire, a tool to assess mental illness stigma
Adversity quotient, the ability to overcome adversities
Autism-spectrum quotient, an adult test for autism spectrum disorder

Unit of measure

Aq, or inch of water, a unit of pressure

See also