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:<code>AQ</code>)
  • Acquity Group, US (NYSE:<code>AQ</code>)
  • Alliance Quebec, Canada
  • Aloha Airlines, a defunct US airline (IATA:<code>AQ</code>)
  • 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:<code>AQ</code>)
  • Academic Quadrangle, at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
  • American Samoa (DIA 65-18 / FIPS PUB 10-4:<code>AQ</code>)
  • 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

  • AQA (disambiguation)
  • Aqua (disambiguation)
  • Ei-Q (1911–1960), photographer
  • QA (disambiguation)