QID

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English

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Etymology 1

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Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.

Adverb

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QID (not comparable)

  1. (pharmacology) Four times a day.
    Coordinate terms: BID, TID
    • 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:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.[1]

Noun

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QID (plural QIDs)

  1. (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]
    • [2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired[2], →ISSN:
      Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID.]
    • 2019 September, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual[3]:
      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 []
  2. (databases) Initialism of quasi-identifier.
    • 2020, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology [] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 36:
      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.
  3. (computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.

Etymology 3

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Abbreviation

Proper noun

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the QID

  1. (chess) Initialism of Queen's Indian Defence.

References

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  1. ^ [Tom Simonite (2019 February 18) “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired[1], →ISSN:The Q prefix on every entry is a tribute to [Denny] Vrandečić’s wife, Qamarniso.]