| Term No. | Term Name | Term Description |
| 9083 | Quality Assurance | A structured review of the project by an external resource, to determine the overall project performance (e.g. against schedule and budget) and confor..... |
| 9084 | Quality Control | The internal monitoring and control of project deliverables, to ensure that they meet the quality targets set for the project. ..... |
| 9085 | Quality Management | The process by which the quality of the deliverables and management processes is assured and controlled on a project. ..... |
| 9087 | Quality Planning | The process of identifying and scheduling Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities to improve the level of quality within a project. ..... |
| 6374 | Quality ratios | A way of representing equipment evaluations by the operators, stating results in the form of efficiencies. An example is: Primary yield, or equipment ..... |
| 9086 | Quality Review | A structured independent review of the project, to determine the overall project performance (e.g. against schedule and budget) and the project confor..... |
| 8601 | Quantized system | A system is said to be quantized when the input or output value changes at discrete intervals of time and holds a constant value between these interva..... |
| 3032 | Quasi-smooth flow, or Skimming flow | A type of flow in rough conduits when the roughness elements are so close together that the flow essentially skims the crests of the elements...... |
| 5706 | Quenching | Rapid cooling...... |
| 8657 | Queueing theory | Theories used for analysis of queues. Customers (water resources demands) coming at random intervals make a queue (line) to wait for services with one..... |
| 2619 | Quick condition (quicksand) | Condition when the water is flowing upward with sufficient velocity thus significantly reducing the bearing capacity of the soil by way of a decrease ..... |
| 4777 | Quick couplers | Couplers used in portable sprinkler systems for the quick assembly or separation of pipes of same diameter...... |
| 5520 | Quick setting cement | A cement that sets more rapidly than ordinary or rapid-hardening Portland cement...... |
| 5501 | Quicklime (run-of-kiln) | A well-burned lime without screening or selection, containing not less than 85 per cent of calcium and magnesium oxides and not more than 5 per cent o..... |
| 5500 | Quicklime (selected) | A well-burned lime, picked free from ashes, core, clinker, or other foreign material, containing not less than 90 per cent of calcium and magnesium ox..... |
| 5499 | Quicklime, or Pure lime | Common or commercial form of calcium oxide (CaO), obtained by the calcination of a stone in thatthe predominating constituent is calcium carbonate (Ca..... |
| 5346 | Quicksand | A soil condition in which fine sand in a saturated, fluid condition is buoyed up by hydrostatic pressure from below...... |
| 1284 | Quondam | An outlet that is no longer functioning. ...... |
