单词 | eq |
释义 | > as lemmasEQ EQ n. Psychology (now rare) educational quotient, a numerical measure of educational level relative to age, arrived at by dividing educational age by chronological age; cf. I.Q. n. at I n.1 Initialisms. ΚΠ 1920 R. Franzen in Teachers Coll. Rec. 21 436 The I. Q. is the potential rate of progress and the E. Q. is the actual rate of progress. 1950 H. Gulliksen Theory Mental Tests xix. 291 The grade placement indicated by the test score was called Educational Age; and the Educational Age was divided by chronological age to obtain an educational quotient or E.Q. 1991 Sunday Tel. 15 Sept. 10/1 The charter will give information on the average IQ of children in a school and their EQ. EQ EQ n. [initialism < either emotional quotient or emotion quotient, after I.Q. n. at I n.1 Initialisms] (a) the level of a person's emotional intelligence (emotional intelligence n. 2), often as represented by a score in a standardized test; (b) (rare) a person's emotional state or capacity, as quantified; = emotional quotient n. at emotional adj. and n. Compounds. Π 1926 Eng. Jrnl. 15 753 The really gifted student must needs combine with the high I.Q. a high E.Q., or emotion quotient. 1941 N.Y. Times 28 Sept. x. 3/2 The thing they miscalculate is the emotional quotient—the e.q.—of an audience. 1995 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 1 Sept. 2 (advt.) Daniel Goleman argues that EQ (emotional intelligence quotient) may be more important than IQ. Read his thoughts, then test your own EQ..this week in USA Weekend. 1997 Esquire Apr. 134/2 She is the spiritual one of the pair, susceptible to fêng shu and assorted otherworldly disciplines—her EQ a match for his IQ. 2004 Time 3 May 23/1 ‘He has a stratospheric EQ,’ a Senator once told me, referring to Bush's emotional intelligence. EQ EQ n. Biology encephalization quotient. ΚΠ 1970 H. J. Jerison in Science 11 Dec. 1225/2 The range of EQ in archaic ungulates was between 0.1 and 0.4. 1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones x. 174 We would see an abrupt increase in EQ from Australopithecus to Homo habilis, then an apparent leveling off as both brain and body size increased together as habilis evolved into erectus. 2015 D. C. Geary in S. Goldstein et al. Handbk. Intelligence viii. 108/1 The EQ of australopithecines is greater than that of chimpanzees but less than 50% that of modern humans. < as lemmas |
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