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Q spoil

Q spoil is the alternative form of Q-spoil.

Meaning of Q-spoil

Verb

Q-spoil (third-person singular simple present Q-spoils, present participle Q-spoiling, simple past and past participle Q-spoiled)

  1. Synonym of Q-switch.
    • The ruby laser line may be o broadened to ~ 1 Å if a Kerr Cell is used to Q-spoil the laser for short, high-power pulses.1964, Robert E. Ellis, Frederick R. Kovar, Feasibility considerations in the application of laser diagnostics to plasmas of density ~1013 cm⁻³, page 27
    Synonyms:
    Q-switch

Forms of Q spoil

third-person singular presentQ spoils
present participleQ spoiling
past participleQ spoiled
pastQ spoiled

Questions about Q spoil

What is Q spoil the alternative form of?
Q spoil is the alternative form of Q-spoil.

Words near Q spoil in the dictionary

  1. Q quotients
  2. Q rating
  3. Q ratings
  4. Q score
  5. Q scores
  6. Q spoil
  7. Q spoiled
  8. Q spoiler
  9. Q spoilers
  10. Q spoiling
  11. Q spoils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Q spoil (page history and authors); Q-spoil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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