"intelligence quotient" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: intelligence quotients [plural]
Etymology: A calque of German Intelligenzquotient. Coined in 1912 by German psychologist William Stern. Etymology templates: {{cog|de|Intelligenzquotient}} German Intelligenzquotient Head templates: {{en-noun}} intelligence quotient (plural intelligence quotients)
  1. A score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure a person's intelligence relative to that of the general population, with the average usually calibrated to a number around 100. Wikipedia link: William Stern (psychologist), intelligence quotient Synonyms: IQ [initialism] Translations (IQ score): zəka əmsalı (Azerbaijani), коефициент на интелигентност (koeficient na inteligentnost) [masculine] (Bulgarian), quocient intel·lectual [masculine] (Catalan), 智商 (zhìshāng) (Chinese Mandarin), intelligenskvotient [common-gender] (Danish), intelligentiequotiënt [neuter] (Dutch), intelekta kvociento (Esperanto), älykkyysosamäärä (Finnish), quotient intellectuel [masculine] (French), ინტელექტის კოეფიციენტი (inṭelekṭis ḳoepicienṭi) (Georgian), Intelligenzquotient [masculine] (German), δείκτης νοημοσύνης (deíktis noïmosýnis) [masculine] (Greek), quoziente intellettivo [masculine] (Italian), quoziente d'intelligenza [masculine] (Italian), 知能指数 (chinō shisū) (alt: ちのうしすう) (Japanese), IQ (IQ) (Japanese), アイ・キュー (ai-kyū) (Japanese), 지능 지수 (jineung jisu) (alt: 知能指數) (Korean), коефицие́нт на интелиге́нција (koeficiént na inteligéncija) [masculine] (Macedonian), बुद्ध्यांक (buddhyāṅka) [masculine] (Marathi), iloraz inteligencji [masculine] (Polish), quociente de inteligência [masculine] (Portuguese), коэффицие́нт интелле́кта (koefficijént intellékta) [masculine] (Russian), IQ [masculine] (Russian), ай-кью́ (aj-kʹjú) [masculine] (Russian), cociente de inteligencia (Spanish), intelligenskvot [common-gender] (Swedish), chỉ số thông minh (Vietnamese), IQ (Vietnamese)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.