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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

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