QE may stand for:

Economics

Quantitative easing Quantitative easing (QE) is a monetary policy action whereby a central bank purchases predetermined amounts of government bonds or other financial assets in order to stimulate economic activity. Quantitative easing is a novel form of monetary pol ...

, a monetary policy intended to stimulate an economy in recession * Quantum economics, a type of monetary economic analysis

Education

* Qualifying examination, an exam required to continue studies at a higher level *

Queen Elizabeth School (disambiguation) Queen Elizabeth School or Queen Elizabeth's School may refer to: United Kingdom ; England *Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria * Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls, Barnet, London * Queen Elizabeth's School for Boys, Barnet, London ...

, several schools, including: **

Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster Queen Elizabeth's School (also known as QE) is a co-educational secondary school in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. Introduction QE is an upper school, taking students between the ages of 13 and 18. In November 2014 there were 1,482 pupils, ...

, in Winborne Minster, Dorset, England **

Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, or QE as it is commonly known, is a sixth form college on Vane Terrace in Darlington, County Durham, England. It educates nearly 2000 students from Darlington and the surrounding areas with students coming fro ...

, in Darlington, County Durham, England **

Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College () is a sixth form college, located in Leicester, England. The college is led by Paul Wilson who was appointed the eighth principal in March 2018. The college merged with the nearby Regent College in 2018 ...

in Leicester, England

Hospitals

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a major, 1,215 bed, tertiary NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construc ...

in England *

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth Hospital (), QE or QEH in short, is one of the largest acute general hospitals in Hong Kong. It was named after Queen Elizabeth II. The hospital is a major tertiary hospital in southern Kowloon, with over 1,900 beds. It empl ...

, a hospital at King's Park in Kowloon, Hong Kong *

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) is an acute care teaching hospital in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. It provides a range of health services, including inpatient, outpatient, surgical, emergency and mental health services. H ...

, in Australia

Mathematics

Quantifier elimination Quantifier elimination is a concept of simplification used in mathematical logic, model theory, and theoretical computer science. Informally, a quantified statement "\exists x such that \ldots" can be viewed as a question "When is there an x such t ...

, a technique to simplify formulas *

Quadratic equation In algebra, a quadratic equation () is any equation that can be rearranged in standard form as ax^2 + bx + c = 0\,, where represents an unknown value, and , , and represent known numbers, where . (If and then the equation is linear, not q ...

, an equation involving the second power (square) but no higher

Royalty

* Queen of England (disambiguation) * Queen Elizabeth (disambiguation), several queens, including: ** Queen

Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". Eli ...

(1533–1603) ** Queen

Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...

of the United Kingdom (born 1926)

Science and engineering

* Quantum efficiency, a measure of a device's sensitivity to light *

Quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of ...

, a close interaction between particles at the quantum level such that they are inseparable * Quality assurance, also known as quality engineering * ''Quality Engineering'' (journal), an academic journal focused on quality assurance * Query expansion, a technique to provide better search results by automatically adding similar searches *

Quartz Compositor Quartz Compositor is the display server (and at the same time the compositing window manager) in macOS. It is responsible for presenting and maintaining rasterized, rendered graphics from the rest of the Core Graphics framework and other ren ...

, also known as Quartz Extreme, the windowing system in Mac OS X

Transportation

Queen Elizabeth Way The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New York. The freeway begins at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and travels around the western ...

, a highway in Ontario, Canada * ''Queen Elizabeth''-class aircraft carrier, a class Royal Navy ships * Crossair Europe (IATA airline designator QE) * ''Queen Elizabeth'' (ship)

Culture

* ''Queer Eye'' (2003 TV series)