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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation intelligence quotient
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100).
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- noun a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100)
- noun a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100)
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Examples
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In the world of today's entrepreneurs, the term IQ doesn't refer to how intelligent one is.
Alexia Parks: The IQ of America's Entrepreneurs Alexia Parks 2011
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In the world of today's entrepreneurs, the term IQ doesn't refer to how intelligent one is.
Alexia Parks: The IQ of America's Entrepreneurs Alexia Parks 2011
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Until Howard Gardner introduced multiple intelligences into the common lexicon, people tended to use the term IQ as a stand-in for intelligence.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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Until Howard Gardner introduced multiple intelligences into the common lexicon, people tended to use the term IQ as a stand-in for intelligence.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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The term IQ, or intelligence quotient, refers to the composite intelligence test score that comes from combining all the subtest scores on the Stanford-Binet or another similar instrument such as the WPPSI.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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The term IQ, or intelligence quotient, refers to the composite intelligence test score that comes from combining all the subtest scores on the Stanford-Binet or another similar instrument such as the WPPSI.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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The term IQ, or intelligence quotient, refers to the composite intelligence test score that comes from combining all the subtest scores on the Stanford-Binet or another similar instrument such as the WPPSI.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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The term IQ, or intelligence quotient, refers to the composite intelligence test score that comes from combining all the subtest scores on the Stanford-Binet or another similar instrument such as the WPPSI.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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Are you familiar with the term IQ, intelligence quotient?
Rainwater Sandra Brown 2009
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She reminds me of Nixon, except she looks much better and her IQ is about 50 points lower. gary
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