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QID en · ADV · etymology 1

Etymology

Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Four times a day.
    • Dilatation of this type “irons out the folds” of the urethra, giving better drainage of the paraurethral glands, stimulating circulation and promoting rapid healing, especially when small doses (7½ gr. q.i.d.) of one of the triple-sulfonamides are given as an adjunct. 1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34:

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q.i.d. alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

TID · BID

QID en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, taxonomic:Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata.
    • Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID. [2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, →ISSN:
    • Within the Unicode consortium, a discussion has been started to use the Wikidata numbering system (“QID”) to create a system of emoji encoding that lies outside core Unicode regulation […] 2019 September, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of quasi-identifier.
    • Due to the absence of unique entity identifiers across different databases, it is required to use the commonly available quasi-identifiers (QIDs), such as names and addresses, for linking records from those databases. 2020, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 36:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.

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Source: en.wiktionary, “QID” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

QID en · PROPN · etymology 3

Etymology

Abbreviation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Queen's Indian Defence.

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the QID canonical lexicographic