PQ may refer to:

Places

  • Province of Quebec, the largest province of Canada by area
  • 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

Computing and electronics

  • Perceptual quantizer, a transfer function for video display
  • Picture quality; see video quality
  • Power quality, the set of limits of electrical properties
  • Priority queue, an abstract data structure

Software

  • 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

Videogames

  • Police Quest, a video game series
  • Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987 video game), first game in the series
  • PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient (2005 video game), first game in the series
  • Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, a 2014 video game

Science, technology, and mathematics

Psychology

  • Play Quotient, a theory in child development developed by Stevanne Auerbach
  • Precision questioning, an intellectual toolkit for critical thinking and for problem solving

Chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology

  • Performance qualification, in pharmaceutics, part of verification and validation
  • Plastoquinone, a molecule involved in photosynthesis

Sports

  • PQ International, a polo magazine
  • Pickleball Quebec

Other uses

  • PQ, outbound Arctic convoys of World War II

See also

  • PQ1 (disambiguation)
  • PQ2 (disambiguation)
  • PQ3 (disambiguation)