QID

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.

Adverb

QID (not comparable)

  1. (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)

  1. (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 […]
  2. (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.
  3. (computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.

References
  1. 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.”
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