IQ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "iq"

Translingual

Symbol

IQ

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Iraq.

   Synonym: IRQ (alpha-3)

English

Alternative forms

• I.Q.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaɪ ˈkjuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

IQ (countable and uncountable, plural IQs)

1. Initialism of intelligence quotient.
   • 1987, Roger R. Flynn, “[Data Organization and Use] Understanding the Data”, in An Introduction to Information Science, Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 129:

     A ratio scale is one with an absolute zero and equal intervals between the units of the scale. Height and weight are such scales. Presumably IQ is not, and certainly the Fahrenheit and centigrade scores are not.

   • 2017 December 10, Arwa Mahdawi, “Having a high IQ is a curse … just look at Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 April 2020:

     Not everyone is quite as enamoured with IQ tests as Trump. In 2004, the New York Times asked Stephen Hawking what his IQ was and he memorably replied: “People who boast about their IQ are losers.” […] Let’s just hope that one consolation of the robots taking over is that we’ll finally stop hearing insufferable people go on about their very high IQs.

   • 2018 June 13, Rory Smith, “IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:

     The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.

2. (photography) Initialism of image quality.
3. Initialism of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge).

Derived terms

• Eye-Q
• IQed
• IQer
• room-temperature IQ

Translations

abbreviation of intelligence quotient

• Catalan: QI (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 智商 (zh) (zhìshāng)

• Dutch: IQ (nl) n
• Esperanto: IK
• Finnish: ÄO (fi)
• French: QI (fr) m
• German: IQ (de)
• Greek: ΔΝ (DN)
• Italian: QI
• Japanese: ＩＱ (ja) (ＩＱ), アイ・キュー (ai-kyū)
• Korean: 아이큐 (ko) (aikyu)
• Macedonian: КИ (KI)
• Polish: IQ (pl) n
• Portuguese: QI (pt) m
• Russian: IQ m, ай-кью́ (ru) m (aj-kʹjú)
• Spanish: CI (es) m
• Swedish: IQ (sv) c or n
• Xibe: ᠠᡞ
  ᡣᡞᠣ (ai kio)

Adjective

IQ (comparative more IQ, superlative most IQ)

1. (slang) Smart, intelligent.

   That was an IQ play!

Derived terms

• high-IQ
• low-IQ

Anagrams

• Qi, qi

Chinese

Etymology

From English IQ, from German Intelligenzquotient.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai¹ kiu¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aai¹ kiu¹
    • Yale: āai kīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai¹ kiu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ai¹ kiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːi̯⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯⁵⁵/

Noun

IQ

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) IQ; intelligence quotient

   Synonym: 智商 (zhìshāng)

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈky/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

IQ n (plural IQ's, no diminutive)

1. acronym of intelligentiequotiënt

Japanese

Etymology

From English IQ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a̠ikʲɨː]
• (Tokyo) アイキュー [àíkyúꜜù] (Nakadaka – [3])

Noun

IQ(アイキュー) • (aikyū) 

1. synonym of 知能指数 (chinō shisū, “intelligence quotient”); IQ
   • 1995 June 1 [1993 February 17], Yōzaburō Kanari with Satō, Fumiya, “オペラ座(ざ)館(かん)殺(さつ)人(じん)事(じ)件(けん)② [The Opera House Murder Case 2]”, in 金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)少(しょう)年(ねん)の事(じ)件(けん)簿(ぼ) [Young Kindaichi Case Files], 14th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 117:

     それにね　彼(かれ)の中(ちゅう)学(がく)での知(ち)能(のう)テストの結(けっ)果(か)を見(み)たの　そしたら‥‥金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)君(くん)のＩ(知能)Ｑ(指数)は〝180(ひゃくはちじゅう)〟という数(すう)値(ち)を記(き)録(ろく)していたわ‼
     Ｉ(アイ)Ｑ(キュー)は180(ひゃくはちじゅう)‼そんなこと‥‥‼
     そう これは驚(きょう)異(い)的(てき)な数(すう)値(ち)よ！日(に)本(ほん)人(じん)の平(へい)均(きん)Ｉ(アイ)Ｑ(キュー)は100(ひゃく)ちょっとだから 彼(かれ)はまさに天(てん)才(さい)的(てき)頭(ず)脳(のう)の持(も)ち主(ぬし)———いいえ‥‥それだけじゃないわ‥‥それ以(い)上(じょう)の何(なに)かを　金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)君(くん)は持(も)っている様(よう)な気(き)がするの

     Sore ni ne Kare no chūgaku de no chinō tesuto kekka o mitai no Soshitara‥‥ Kindaichi-kun no aikyū wa "hyakuhachijū" to iu sūchi o kiroku shite ita wa‼
     Aikyū wa hyakuhachijū‼ Sonna koto‥‥‼
     Sō kore wa kyōiteki na sūchi yo! Nihonjin no heikin aikyū wa hyaku chotto da kara Kare wa masa ni tensaiteki zunō no mochinushi——— Īe‥‥ Sore dake ja nai wa‥‥ Sore ijō no nani ka o Kindaichi-kun wa motte iru yō na ki ga suru no

     Besides, I saw the result of his IQ test in middle school. Turns out... Kindaichi-kun has a whopping IQ of 180!!
     An IQ of 180‼ Which means...!!
     Yes, a phenomenal number! The average Japanese person’s IQ is only about 100. Which means he possesses the brain of a genius— No... Not just that... I think there’s a lot more to Kindaichi-kun.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English IQ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj ˈkju/
• Syllabification: I‧Q

Noun

IQ n (indeclinable)

1. IQ

   Synonym: iloraz inteligencji

Further reading

• “IQ”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “IQ”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Swedish

Noun

IQ c or n

1. IQ, intelligence quotient

   Synonym: intelligenskvot

   Den genomsnittliga IQ:n är 100.

   The average IQ is 100.

   Finns det något sätt för mig att höja mitt IQ?

   Is there any way for me to raise my IQ?

Declension

Definite common singular: IQ:n