AQ

AQ, Aq, aQ, or aq may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

 * A. Q. Shipley (Allan Quay Shipley, born 1986), known as AQ, American former football center and coach
 * A-Q (born 1986), Nigerian rapper
 * AQ Interactive, a Japanese video game developer
 * AdventureQuest, a 2002 Web-based game
 * Australian Quarterly, a journal for political science
 * Ah Q or A Q, a character in 1921 novella The True Story of Ah Q
 * Al-Qatala, a fictional group in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series

Businesses and organizations

 * 9 Air, China (IATA: )
 * Acquity Group, US (NYSE: )
 * Alliance Quebec, Canada
 * Aloha Airlines, a defunct US airline (IATA: )
 * Al-Qaeda, an Islamist militant group
 * Al-Quds Force, a Iran special forces
 * Automatic Qualifying conference, in North American college sports

Chemistry

 * 8-Aminoquinoline (AQ), a heterocyclic bidentate ligand
 * Anthraquinone (AQ), an aromatic organic compound
 * Aqueous solution (aq), dissolved in water

Computing and telephony

 * .aq, the Internet domain for Antarctica
 * Adaptive quantization, a quantization process that provides efficient compression
 * Oracle Advanced Queuing, a message provider used in the software products of the Oracle Corporation

Places

 * Ak, Buin Zahra, also spelled Aq, a village in Iran
 * Antarctica (ISO 3166: )
 * Academic Quadrangle, at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
 * American Samoa (DIA 65-18 / FIPS PUB 10-4: )
 * Antigua and Barbuda, LOC MARC code
 * L'Aquila, a province of Italy

Psychology

 * Attribution questionnaire, a tool to assess mental illness stigma
 * Adversity quotient, the ability to overcome adversities
 * Autism-spectrum quotient, an adult test for autism spectrum disorder

Unit of measure

 * Aq, or inch of water, a unit of pressure