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qy.

qy. is the abbreviation of query.

qy. is the abbreviation of quantity.

Meaning of query

Noun

query (plural queries)

  1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
    • The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
  2. A question mark.
    • His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.1886, Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society, Great Britain
  3. A set of instructions passed to a database.
    • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

See all 10 meanings of query

Meaning of quantity

Noun

quantity (countable and uncountable, plural quantities, abbreviation qty)

  1. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
    • You have to choose between quantity and quality.
  2. An indefinite amount of something.
    • Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.
  3. A specific measured amount.
    • This bag would normally cost $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
  4. A considerable measure or amount.
    • The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
  5. Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
  6. Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
    • x plus y quantity squared equals x squared plus 2xy plus y squared.

See all 7 meanings of quantity

Questions about qy.

What is qy. the abbreviation of?
Qy. is the abbreviation of query.

Words near qy. in the dictionary

  1. Qwon
  2. qword
  3. qwords
  4. QXGA
  5. qy
  6. qy.
  7. qyoot
  8. Qypchaq
  9. Qypchaqs
  10. Qyrghyz
  11. Qyzylbash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: qy. (page history and authors); query (page history and authors); quantity (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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