QID
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.
Adverb edit
QID (not comparable)
- (pharmacology) Four times a day.
- 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.
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.[1]
Noun edit
QID (plural QIDs)
- (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]
- 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 […]
- (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.
- (computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.
Etymology 3 edit
Abbreviation
Proper noun edit
the QID
- (chess) Initialism of Queen's Indian Defence.