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Definition: HQ

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. (usually plural) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"HQ" is a common misspelling or typo for: Ha, HW, GHQ, hqs.

Date "HQ" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Specialty Definition: HQ

Domain Definition
Administration Hazard quotient. (references)
Aerospace 1: Headquarters (NASA). (references)
  2: NASA HEADQUARTERS. (references)
  3: Headquarters (HDQ Preferred). (references)
Census A term sometimes used to designate the Census Bureau (Headquarters) in Suitland, Maryland. (references)
Environment DOE headquarters offices in Washington, D.C. (references)
Health HI Query Operations. (references)
Military 1: Headquarters. (references)
  2: Headquarters. (references)
  3: 1) HAVE QUICK. 2) Headquarters. (references)
Mining A letter name specifying the dimensions of bits, core barrels, and drill rods in the H-size and Q-group wireline diamond drilling system having a core diameter of 63.5 mm and a hole diameter of 96 mm. (references)
Technology 1: Headquarters (generally wing commander's office). (references)
  2: Have Quick. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Expressions: HQ

Expressions Domain Definition
Corp HQ Environment Corps Headquarters. (references)
DB/GP HQ Environment Division Brigade/Group Headquarters. (references)
HQ AIRNORTH Art Headquarters Allied Air Forces North. (references)
HQ AMET Military AG decimal files seen at Headquarters, Africa Middle East Theater, Cairo, now filed at the Kansas City Records Center. (references)
HQ NAEW&C FC Art Headquarters NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control, Force Command. (references)
HQ NAVNORTH Art Headquarters Allied Naval Forces North. (references)
HQ NORTH Art Headquarters Allied Forces Northern Europe. (references)
HQ SACLANT Art Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. (references)
HQ SSG Art Head Quarters Standard Systems Group. (references)
HQ SSG (AQ) Art Head Quarters Standard Systems Group (Acquisitions Directorate). (references)
HQ STRIKFLTLANT Art Headquarters Striking Fleet Atlantic. (references)
HQ SUBACLANT Art Headquarters Submarines Atlantic. (references)
HQ USAF/RT Military Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, Base Closure Office. (references)
JTF HQ Military Joint task force headquarters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HQ

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
HQ English Hambrecht & Quist N/A
HQ German Hauptquartier Military & Defense
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: HQ

HQ

HQ may mean:

  • High Quality
  • Hagströmer & Qviberg, Swedish investment bank
  • Harmony Airways IATA airline designator
  • Have Quick
  • Headquarters, in military parlance and other contexts
  • Hero's Quest (computer game)
  • HeroQuest (board game)
  • HeroQuest (role-playing game)
  • Harley Quinn DC Comics character and enemy of Batman
  • High Quality (often used to describe the quality of pictures)
  • Holden Kingswood HQ
  • Honored Queen
  • Howland Island: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
  • HQ (album), a 1975 album by Roy Harper
  • Hydro-Québec, an electrical power utility of Québec, Canada
  • Home Quarters Warehouse, a defunct retail chain

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "HQ". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: HQ

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Ace of Spades HQ 13     Ace of Spades HQ 13
HQ 12     CFNA HQ Whitehorse 3
HQ Air Command Europe 11     CFNA HQ Yellowknife 3
HQ Northern Ireland 10     Command HQ 3
HQ (album) 10     Geely HQ 4
Reef HQ 9     HQ 12
Sadie Coles HQ 8     HQ (album) 10
The PokéDigi HQ 7     HQ Air Command Europe 11
HQ Theatres 6     HQ Northern Ireland 10
Library of Congress Classification:Class H, subclass HQ -- Family, Marriage, Woman, and Sexuality 5     HQ Theatres 6
Geely HQ 4     Library of Congress Classification:Class H, subclass HQ -- Family, Marriage, Woman, and Sexuality 5
CFNA HQ Whitehorse 3     Reef HQ 9
Command HQ 3     Sadie Coles HQ 8
CFNA HQ Yellowknife 3     The PokéDigi HQ 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"HQ" is a common misspelling or typo for: Ha, HW, GHQ, hqs.

Synonyms: HQ
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 headquarters.
Consider also: guardhouse, seat.

Expression

 central office, home base, Home Office, main office, military headquarters.
Consider also: nerve center.
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Computed Synonyms: HQ

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   5.0189   HQ     headquarters     head office, main office, seat, home office, home base   
 2   2.0092   HQ     central     principal, middle, main, chief, cardinal   
 3   1.0196   HQ     hall     lobby, hallway, room, vestibule, foyer   
 4   1.0189   HQ     hydroquinone     quinol, hydroquinol   
 5   1.0094   HQ     Comdt     commandant, captaincy, leading, leadership, headquarters   
 6   1.0094   HQ     staff     rod, Pole, cane, stick, shaft   
 7   1.0092   HQ     command     order, control, rule, instruction, dictate   
 8   1.0092   HQ     leading     lead, to lead, head, guiding, conduct   
 9   1.0090   HQ     captaincy     captainship, leadership, command, conduct, leading   
 10   1.0089   HQ     army staff     staff, general staff   
 11   1.0088   HQ     main office     headquarters, home office, home base, seat, central   
 12   1.0086   HQ     general staff     staff, general staff of the army, army staff, military staff, generality   
 13   1.0085   HQ     action station     command post, headquarters, quarters   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: HQ

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   6.7789   HQ forward echelon     headquarters forward echelon         
 2   5.7789   HQ rear echelon     headquarters rear echelon         
 3   3.6689   sector HQ     sector headquarters     subheadquarters   
 4   1.9992   subsector HQ     subsector command         
 5   1.8889   HQ squadron     headquarters squadron         
 6   1.8889   HQ property     headquarters property         
 7   1.7795   HQ service company     HQ and service company         
 8   1.7795   HQ and service company     HQ service company         
 9   1.6692   sector HQ     sector command         
 10   1.6692   naval sector HQ     naval sector command         
 11   1.6689   HQ ground     high quality ground         
 12   1.2783   rear services section of HQ     service platoon         
 13   1.2278   serviced from Madrid HQ     HQ     headquarters, central   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HQ

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya مقر قيادة خلفي (headquarters rear echelon, HQ rear echelon), وحدة حرس المقر والإدارة (HQ guard and administration unit), مقر قيادة أمامي (headquarters forward echelon, HQ forward echelon). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha مقر قيادة خلفي (headquarters rear echelon, HQ rear echelon), وحدة حرس المقر والإدارة (HQ guard and administration unit), مقر قيادة أمامي (headquarters forward echelon, HQ forward echelon). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic مقر قيادة خلفي (headquarters rear echelon, HQ rear echelon), وحدة حرس المقر والإدارة (HQ guard and administration unit), مقر قيادة أمامي (headquarters forward echelon, HQ forward echelon). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 总部 (general headquarters, headquarters, headquarter, home base, hq), 总部办公室 (hq office), hq婴儿 (hq babe), 区总部 (sector headquarters, sector HQ), 指挥部后方梯队 (headquarters rear echelon, HQ rear echelon), 总部警卫和行政股 (HQ guard and administration unit), 指挥部前沿梯队 (headquarters forward echelon, HQ forward echelon). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 總部 (general headquarters, headquarters, headquarter, home base, hq), 總部辦公室 (hq office), hq嬰兒 (hq babe). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic مقر قيادة خلفي (headquarters rear echelon, HQ rear echelon), وحدة حرس المقر والإدارة (HQ guard and administration unit), مقر قيادة أمامي (headquarters forward echelon, HQ forward echelon). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Hungarian parancsnokság (captaincy, command, leading, commands, Comdt), harcálláspont (command post, action station, headquarters, HQ). Additional references: Hungarian, Hungary, Austria, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 本部 (headquarters, central, hall, headquarter, HQ), 本社 (headquarters, head office, main office, central, headquarter), 司令部 (headquarters, headquarter, HQ), 事業本部 (corporate HQ, corporate), じぎょうほんぶ (corporate HQ). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Magyar parancsnokság (captaincy, command, leading, commands, Comdt), harcálláspont (command post, action station, headquarters, HQ). Additional references: Magyar, Hungary, Austria, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish hydrochinon (HQ, hydroquinone). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch hydrochinon (HQ, hydroquinone). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski hydrochinon (HQ, hydroquinone). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish Sede Central (head office, headquarters, home office, host site, HQ), estado mayor (staff, army staff, general staff, HQ, staff of a unit). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, HQ. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: HQ

Language Translations for “HQ” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin HQAY (HQ). Additional references: Pig Latin, HQ. (volunteer)
Terran B haraocsis (HQ). Additional references: Terran B, HQ. (volunteer)
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