QE may stand for:

Economics

Quantitative easing Quantitative easing (QE) is a monetary policy action where 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 polic ...

, a monetary policy intended to stimulate an economy in recession

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, in Winborne Minster, Dorset, England ** Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, 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 National Health Service (England), NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which ...

in England *

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth Hospital (), abbreviated as QE or QEH, is one of the largest district general hospital in Hong Kong. It was named after Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a major tertiary hospital in southern Kowloon, with over 1 ...

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

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) is an acute care district general hospital in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. It is a teaching hospital of University of Adelaide, providing a range of health services, including inpatient, ou ...

, 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 ..." can be viewed as a question "When is there an x such ...

, a technique to simplify formulas *

Quadratic equation In mathematics, a quadratic equation () is an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as ax^2 + bx + c = 0\,, where the variable (mathematics), variable represents an unknown number, and , , and represent known numbers, where . (If and ...

, 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. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history ...

(1533–1603) ** Queen

Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...

of the United Kingdom (1926–2022)

Science and engineering

Quantum efficiency The term quantum efficiency (QE) may apply to incident photon to converted electron (IPCE) ratio of a photosensitive device, or it may refer to the TMR effect of a magnetic tunnel junction. This article deals with the term as a measurement of ...

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

Quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon where the quantum state of each Subatomic particle, particle in a group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance. The topic o ...

, a close interaction between particles at the quantum level such that they are inseparable *

Quality assurance Quality assurance (QA) is the term used in both manufacturing and service industries to describe the systematic efforts taken to assure that the product(s) delivered to customer(s) meet with the contractual and other agreed upon performance, design ...

, also known as quality engineering * ''Quality Engineering'' (journal), an academic journal focused on quality assurance *

Query expansion Query expansion (QE) is the process of reformulating a given query to improve retrieval performance in information retrieval operations, particularly in the context of query understanding. In the context of search engines, query expansion involves ...

, 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 highways, 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New York. The highway begins at the Canada–United States border on the Pea ...

, a highway in Ontario, Canada * ''Queen Elizabeth''-class aircraft carrier, a class Royal Navy ships *

Crossair Europe Crossair Europe (also known as ''European Continental Airways'') was an airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland. It operated scheduled services to des ...

(IATA airline designator QE) * ''Queen Elizabeth'' (ship)

Culture

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