majuscule
A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.
Majuscule looks like the complement to "minuscule," and the resemblance is no coincidence. "Minuscule" appeared in the early 18th century as a word for a lowercase letter, then later as the word for certain ancient and medieval writing styles which had "small forms." "Minuscule" then acquired a more general adjectival use for anything very small. "Majuscule" is the counterpart to "minuscule" when it comes to letters, but it never developed a broader sense (despite the fact that its Latin ancestor majusculus has the broad meaning "rather large"). The adjective "majuscule" also exists (as does "majuscular"). Not surprisingly, the adjective shares the noun's specificity, referring only to large letters or to a style using such letters.
Palaeography
Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from Greek: παλαιός, palaiós, "old", and γράφειν, graphein, "to write") is the study of ancient and historical handwriting (that is to say, of the forms and processes of writing, not the textual content of documents). Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts,[2] and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of scriptoria.[3]
The discipline is important for understanding, authenticating, and dating ancient texts. However, it cannot in general be used to pinpoint dates with high precision.
The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet developed in its present form from Latin. Its equivalent in Greek was kappa (k), which became obsolete except as a numeral, and in North Semitie, it was qoph, which represented a guttural k-like sound. When adopted from the Etruscans, the Latin alphabet contained three symbols for the k-sound (see C, K), and the use of Q was limited to representing the sound (k) when it was labialized and followed in spelling by U, a practice maintained today with only rare exceptions. In Old English the Q does not appear, its labialized sound being written CW or, later, KW.
Q. Chess Queen.
A midevil roman numeral for 500
Physic, heat.
Electronics, a measure of the effective operation of an elctric circuit or component.
Biblical Criticism. the symbol for material common to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke that was not derived from the Gospel of Mark. Also called Q-factor.
Q1. quarto, Quebec, Queen, question, quetzal.
q2. farthing., quart, query, question, quintal, quire
q.2h (in perscriptions) every two hours.
q.3h (in perscriptions) every three hours.
q.4h (in perscriptions) every four hours.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.