QA
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QA may stand for:
- QatarQatarQatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code- .qa.qa.qa is the Internet country code top-level domain for Qatar.As of May 2011, the second-level domains appear to be the traditional;* com.qa* net.qa* org.qa* gov.qa* edu.qa* mil.qa* name.qa* sch.qa-External links:* *...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Qatar
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- Quality assuranceQuality AssuranceQuality assurance, or QA for short, is the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service or facility to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being attained by the production process...
, the process or set of processes used to measure and assure the quality of a product - Quantitative analysisQuantitative analysisQuantitative analysis may refer to:* Quantitative analysis , an analysis technique applying mathematics stochastic calculus to finance...
, the application of quantitative techniques such as statistics and stochastics in various areas of data analysis (e.g. finance) - QantasQantasQantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport...
, the national airline of Australia - Question answeringQuestion answeringIn information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...
, a type of information retrieval - quantitative analysis (chemistry)Quantitative analysis (chemistry)In chemistry, quantitative analysis is the determination of the absolute or relative abundance of one, several or all particular substance present in a sample....
, the measurements of quantities of substances produced in reactions rather than simply noting the nature of the reactions - Qualitative inorganic analysisQualitative inorganic analysisClassical qualitative inorganic analysis is a method of analytical chemistry which seeks to find elemental composition of inorganic compounds. It is mainly focused on detecting ions in an aqueous solution, so that materials in other forms may need to be brought into this state before using standard...
, when shortened to qualitative analysis, can be abbreviated to QA - Qatar AcademyQatar AcademyQatar Academy is a private, co-educational school in Doha, Qatar. It is an international school located in Qatar Foundation's Education City. It was founded in 1996 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar. The school offers the International Baccalaureate...
, an International Baccalaureate school in Doha, Qatar - Qa (Cyrillic)Qa (Cyrillic)Qa is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is based on the Latin letter Q . Depending on the font, the uppercase form can look like a reversed Latin letter P....
, a character used in the Kurdish alphabet - QA (robot), a two-wheeled balancing telepresence robot developed by Anybots
- ATCvet code QA Alimentary tract and metabolism, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System for veterinary medicinal products
- "Qa-1", a form of alloantigen
- Queen Alexandra HospitalQueen Alexandra HospitalThe Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, Portsmouth, is one of several hospitals serving the city of Portsmouth...
, the largest hospital serving the city of PortsmouthPortsmouthPortsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
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