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QoE Monitoring Agent: A service running on a front-end server that collects and processes Quality of Experience (QoE) reports from clients in the form of a SIP message, sends a 202 Accepted or an error response to the client, and sends the QoE metrics to the QoE Monitoring Server.

QoE Monitoring Server: A server that collects and processes Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics.

Quality of Experience (QoE): A subjective measure of a user's experiences with a media service.

query: (1) A formalized instruction to a data source to either extract data or perform a specified action. A query can be in the form of a query expression, a method-based query, or a combination of the two. The data source can be in different forms, such as a relational database, XML document, or in-memory object. See also search query.

(2) A context-dependent term commonly overloaded with three meanings, defined as follows: The act of requesting records from a set of records or the request itself. The particular string defining the criteria for which records are to be returned. This string can either be an XPath, as specified in [XPATH], (for more information, see [MS-EVEN6] section 2.2.15) or a structured XML query, as specified in [XML10], (for more information, see [MS-EVEN6] section 2.2.16).

(3) Contains nonhierarchical data used to identify a resource within the scope of a URIscheme and naming authority, as defined in [RFC3986] section 3.4.

(4) A dataset query instance.

(5) A semantic query, as defined in [MS-SMDL].

query component: (1) A portion of a URL that follows a question mark (?), as described in [RFC3986].

(2) A search component that contains and manages an index partition, which contains all or a subset of the data that is collected by a crawl component. A query component can also process requests for that data.

query context: A component of a promotion that specifies the contexts in which a promotion is applied. Examples include the site where the query originates and a user's role or location.

query expansion: A process in which one or more tokens are added to a search query. Typically, the additional tokens are selected based on similarity to existing tokens in a search query, such as inflectional forms, synonyms, and phonetic similarity.

query processing: In a search service application, a series of operations, such as applying synonym and stemming expansion rules to the query text, that are performed before a search query is executed against a search index.

query refinement: A process that is used to drill into query results by using aggregated statistical data, such as the distribution of managed property values in query results.

query result: A result that is returned for a query. It contains the title and URL of the item, and can also contain other managed properties and a hit-highlighted summary.

query rule: A setting that consists of a keyword condition and an action preformed to provide the most relevant search results.

query server: A server that has been assigned the task of fulfilling search queries.

query table: A two-dimensional table that presents data from an external data source.

query text: The textual, string portion of a query.

queryable expression: A syntax that is used by protocol clients to retrieve a set of CSOM Objects that meet a specific set of criteria, based on state data that is stored on a protocol server.

queue: An object that holds messages passed between applications or messages passed between Message Queuing and applications. In general, applications can send messages to queues and read messages from queues.

queue manager: A message queuing service that manages queues deployed on a computer. A queue manager may also provide asynchronous transfer of messages to queues deployed on other queue managers.

Quick Access Toolbar: A set of controls that represents tasks or commands within an application. By default, it provides access to frequently used commands on the ribbon. Users can customize it by adding or removing commands.

quick discovery: The process of discovering responders on a network.

Quick Launch: A collection of links to lists and pages in a SharePoint site. By default, it appears on the side of all pages, except site administration pages, in the site.

quick mode (QM): The second phase of an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) negotiation, during which the peers negotiate quick mode security associations (quick mode security association (QM SA)). For more information, see [RFC2409] section 5.5.

qWave-WD: The Quality Windows Audio/Video Experience (qWave): Wireless Diagnostics Protocol.