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Training To Failure: Continuing a set until it is impossible to complete another rep without assistance.

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Quarter Stock: Stock with a par value of $25 per share.

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Quality Training: Training just before bodybuilding competition where intervals between sets are drastically reduced to enhance muscle mass and density, and low calorie diet is followed to reduce body fat.

Quadruple Stop: Playing four notes simultaneously on a string instrument.

Qualifying Stock Option: A benefit granted by a corporation that allows employees to purchase shares at a discount price.

Quartzose Sandstone: (1) A quartz arenite. (2) A clean quartz sandstone, less pure than a quartz arenite, that may contain a moderate amount of other detrital minerals and/or calcite cement.

Queen of the Meadow Root (Eupatorum purpureum): Also known as gravel root or Joe-Pye Weed. Diuretic, anti-lithic, urinary infections, respiratory.