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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɛs kjuː ɛl/, /ˈsiːkwəl/ Audio: En-us-SQL.ogg [US], en-us-sequel.ogg [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-SQL.wav [US]
Rhymes: -iːkwəl Etymology templates: {{wp|en:}} Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} SQL (uncountable)
  1. (computer languages, databases) Initialism of Structured Query Language. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Structured Query Language Hypernyms: QL Hyponyms: eSQL, NewSQL, NoSQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Transact-SQL Derived forms: HSQLDB Translations (SQL (Structured Query Language)): إِس كْيُو إِل (ʔes kyū ʔel) [masculine] (Arabic), إسْ كْيُو إلْ (ʔis kyū ʔil) [masculine] (Arabic), SQL [neuter] (German), SQL [masculine] (Italian), SQL (esu-kyū-eru) (Japanese), SQL (eseukyuel) (Korean), SQL [neuter] (Norwegian), اسکیوال (es-kiyu-el) (Persian), SQL (alt: pronounced эс-ку-э́ль (es-ku-élʹ) or эс-кью-э́л (es-kʹju-él)) [masculine] (Russian), SQL [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), SQL [masculine] (Sicilian), SQL [masculine] (Spanish), SQL [neuter] (Swedish), SQL (Turkish)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ɛs kjuː ɛl/ Audio: En-us-SQL.ogg [US]
Etymology templates: {{wp|en:+ (disambiguation)}} Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} SQL (uncountable)
  1. (physics) Initialism of standard quantum limit. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: standard quantum limit
    Sense id: en-SQL-en-noun-rwTwVV8f Categories (other): Physics Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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