QID

alternative q.i.d.

1. not comparablemedicineFour times a day.

   Dilatation of this type “irons out the folds” of the urethra, giving better drainage of the paraurethral glands, stimulating circulation and promoting rapid healing, especially when small doses (7½ gr. q.i.d.) of one of the triple-sulfonamides are given as an adjunct.

   1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34

plural QIDs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata.First known use 2012

   Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID.

   [2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, →ISSN

   1 more example

   Within the Unicode consortium, a discussion has been started to use the Wikidata numbering system (“QID”) to create a system of emoji encoding that lies outside core Unicode regulation […]

   2019 September, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual

2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of quasi-identifier.

   Due to the absence of unique entity identifiers across different databases, it is required to use the commonly available quasi-identifiers (QIDs), such as names and addresses, for linking records from those databases.

   2020, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 36

3. abbreviationinitialismcomputer securityInitialism of Qualys identifier.

1. abbreviationinitialismboard gamesInitialism of Queen's Indian Defence.