(management) A strategic approach to management aimed at embedding awareness of quality in all organizational processes.

(informal) The quark-gluon plasma which existed in the first millionth of a second of the universe.

Relating to a 400th anniversary.

A 400th anniversary.

(phonetics) phonation

plural of quake lake

A lake formed after the damming of a watercourse by a landslide caused by an earthquake.

(physics) A physical property that can be measured or calculated from other physical property and expressed as the product of a numerical value and a physical unit.

The systematic scientific investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships, using statistical methods.

(social sciences, marketing) A set of research techniques in which data is obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with statistical techniques.