IQ

Smart, intelligent.

Adjective

  1. Smart, intelligent.
    • That was an IQ play!

Forms

more IQ most IQ I.Q.

Derived

high-IQ low-IQ

Noun

  1. Initialism of intelligence quotient.
    • A ratio scale is one with an absolute zero and equal intervals between the units of the scale. Height and weight are such scales. Presumably IQ is not, and certainly the Fahrenheit and centigrade scores are not. - 1987,...
    • Not everyone is quite as enamoured with IQ tests as Trump. In 2004, the New York Times asked Stephen Hawking what his IQ was and he memorably replied: “People who boast about their IQ are losers.” […] Let’s just hope...
    • The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out...
  2. Initialism of image quality.
  3. Initialism of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge).

Forms

IQs I.Q.

Derived

Eye-Q room-temperature IQ