PQ

PQ may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient, a video game
• Philological Quarterly, a journal of medieval literature and culture
• Police Quest, an adventure game series
• Power Quest, a British power metal band
• Progress Quest, a parody computer game
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, a video game

Places

• Province of Quebec, the largest province of Canada
• Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego, informally

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
• Previous question, a motion in Robert's Rules of Order to close debate

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

• Picture quality; see video quality
• PowerQuest, a producer of computer HDD software tools for the DOS/Windows platform
• Priority queuing, a data packet scheduling technique
• libpq, a C library for the PostgreSQL database

Psychology

• Play Quotient, a theory in child development pertaining to individuals and the characteristics of toys, games and other playthings
• Precision questioning, an intellectual toolkit for critical thinking and for problem solving

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• PQ, a very simple formal system
• Performance qualification, in pharmaceutics, part of verification and validation
• Plastoquinone, a molecule involved in photosynthesis
• Power quality, the set of limits of electrical properties

Other uses

• PQ, code for a series of Arctic convoys of World War II
• Panafrican Airways (IATA designator PQ)
• Performance Qualification, in project management
• Pilot Qualified, in aviation