intelligence quotient

English

Alternative forms

• IQ (initialism)

Etymology

A calque of German Intelligenzquotient. Coined in 1912 by German psychologist William Stern.

Noun

intelligence quotient (plural intelligence quotients)

1. A score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure a person's intelligence relative to that of the general population, with the average usually calibrated to a number around 100.

Translations

IQ score

• Azerbaijani: zəka əmsalı
• Bulgarian: коефициент на интелигентност m (koeficient na inteligentnost)
• Catalan: quocient intel·lectual (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 智商 (zh) (zhìshāng)

• Danish: intelligenskvotient c
• Dutch: intelligentiequotiënt (nl) n
• Esperanto: intelekta kvociento
• Finnish: älykkyysosamäärä (fi)
• French: quotient intellectuel (fr) m
• Georgian: ინტელექტის კოეფიციენტი (inṭelekṭis ḳoepicienṭi)
• German: Intelligenzquotient (de) m
• Greek: δείκτης νοημοσύνης (el) m (deíktis noïmosýnis)
• Italian: quoziente intellettivo m, quoziente d'intelligenza (it) m
• Japanese: 知能指数 (ja) (ちのうしすう, chinō shisū), ＩＱ (ＩＱ), アイ・キュー (ai-kyū)
• Korean: 지능 지수(知能指數) (jineung jisu)
• Macedonian: коефицие́нт на интелиге́нција m (koeficiént na inteligéncija)
• Marathi: बुद्ध्यांक m (buddhyāṅka)
• Polish: iloraz inteligencji m
• Portuguese: quociente de inteligência (pt) m
• Russian: коэффицие́нт интелле́кта m (koefficijént intellékta), IQ m, ай-кью́ (ru) m (aj-kʹjú)
• Spanish: cociente de inteligencia
• Swedish: intelligenskvot (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chỉ số thông minh, IQ