QID
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.
Adverb
QID (not comparable)
- (pharmacology) Four times a day.
- Coordinate terms: BID, TID
Alternative forms
- q.i.d.
Etymology 2
The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.[1]
Noun
QID (plural QIDs)
- (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]
- [2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, ISSN 1059-1028:
- Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID.]
- 2019 September, Christian Lieske; Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual:
- Within the Unicode consortium, a discussion has been started to use the Wikidata numbering system (“QID”) to create a system of emoji encoding that lies outside core Unicode regulation […]
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- (databases) Initialism of quasi-identifier.
- 2020, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro; Guillermo Navarro-Arribas; Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 36:
- Due to the absence of unique entity identifiers across different databases, it is required to use the commonly available quasi-identifiers (QIDs), such as names and addresses, for linking records from those databases.
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- (computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.
References
- Tom Simonite (2019-02-18), “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, ISSN 1059-1028: “The Q prefix on every entry is a tribute to [Denny] Vrandečić’s wife, Qamarniso.”