Q-TEL stands for Qatar Telecommunications Company (also seen as Qtel)
Q-SWITCH stands for Heterostructure-defined electron waveguides for quantum-based switching applications
Q-SNARE stands for Glutamine-Soluble NSF (N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor) Attachment Protein Receptor
Q-Sign stands for Unresponsive person; mouth open & tongue hanging out (medical slang)
Q-ship stands for Decoy Ship (US DoD)
Q-RPT stands for Quartz Reference Pressure Transducer
Q-RAM stands for QoS (Quality of Service)-Based Resource Allocation Model (algorithm)
Q-PEA stands for Quantity Per End Article
Q-PCR stands for Quantitative Competitive Polymerase Chain Reaction
q-OSN stands for Qth-Order Spectral-Null (coding scheme)