Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
QID en · ADV · etymology 1
Etymology
Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.
Meanings
(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:
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:
(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:
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.