qual
English
Alternative forms
Noun
qual (plural quals)
- (usually in the plural) Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.
- 2000, Stephen Cannell, The Devil's Workshop: A Novel, HarperCollins (2000), page 12,
- He'd refused to say anything more, because he didn't want to distract her with his problems on the eve of the Quals.
- 2004, Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, John Wiley & Sons (2004), page 30.
- To be a theorist, you also had to pass a special theory section on the quals.
- 2000, Stephen Cannell, The Devil's Workshop: A Novel, HarperCollins (2000), page 12,
Quotations
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Pronoun
qual (relative, plural quals)
- which
- És un cop del qual no es va recuperar.
- It's a blow from which he is not going to recover.
- És un cop del qual no es va recuperar.
Further reading
- “qual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Interlingua
Adverb
qual (not comparable)
- what (such)
Determiner
qual
- (relative) which
- Le doctrina de Jamblicho super le anima es sin dubita inspirate per le Timeo de Platon, in qual texto le autor depinge le anima como le mediation inter lo intelligibile indivisibile – le idea – e lo sensibile divisibile e multiple.[1]
- Iamblichus' doctrine about the soul is without a doubt inspired by Plato's Timaeus, in which text the author depicts the soul as the mediation between the indivisible intelligible — the idea — and the divisible and multiple sensory.
- Le doctrina de Jamblicho super le anima es sin dubita inspirate per le Timeo de Platon, in qual texto le autor depinge le anima como le mediation inter lo intelligibile indivisibile – le idea – e lo sensibile divisibile e multiple.[1]
Pronoun
qual
- (interrogative) what
- Qual es le instrumento del anima per rationalisar lo sensibile, multiple e cambiante? [2]
- What is the soul's instrument to perceive by reason the sensory, multiple, and variable?
- Qual es le instrumento del anima per rationalisar lo sensibile, multiple e cambiante? [2]
- (relative) which
- Secundo Jamblicho, le mathematica es le medio per qual le anima da unitate a lo diverse e es capabile de rationalisar le ordine de lo sensibile. [3]
- According to Iamblichus, mathematics is the medium by which the soul gives unity to the diverse and is capable of perceiving by reason the order of the sensory.
- Secundo Jamblicho, le mathematica es le medio per qual le anima da unitate a lo diverse e es capabile de rationalisar le ordine de lo sensibile. [3]
Italian
Noun
qual m and f
- Apocopic form of quale
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I:
- Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura! - Ah, how rueful to say what sort it was
this wilderness wild and harsh and daunting
that in my thoughts makes my fright alive again
- Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I:
Middle English
Noun
qual
- Alternative form of whale
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese qual, from Latin quālis (“which”).
Pronunciation
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Pronoun
qual (plural quais)
- which (what one)
- Qual é maior?
- Which is bigger?
Quotations
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Derived terms
Related terms
Spanish
Pronoun
qual (relative, plural quales)
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