# Query

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In general, a **query** is a form of [questioning](/source/Question), in a line of inquiry.

**Query** may also refer to:

## Music

- "Query?", a 2025 track by Toby Fox from *[Deltarune Chapters 3+4 OST](/source/Deltarune_Chapters_3%2B4_OST)* from the video game *Deltarune*

## Computing and technology

- Query, a precise request for [information retrieval](/source/Information_retrieval) made to a [database](/source/Database), [data structure](/source/Data_structure) or information system - [Query language](/source/Query_language), a computer language used to make queries into databases and information systems - [Query string](/source/Query_string), in the World Wide Web, is an optional part of a URL - [Web search query](/source/Web_search_query), a query entered by users into web search engines
- [Command-query separation](/source/Command-query_separation) (CQS), a concept in object-oriented programming, especially in the Eiffel programming language
- [jQuery](/source/JQuery), a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML

## People with the name

- [Jeff Query](/source/Jeff_Query) (born 1967), an American football player
- [Nate Query](/source/Nate_Query), a musician

## Other uses

- [Query (complexity)](/source/Query_(complexity)), a mapping from structures of one vocabulary to structures of another vocabulary
- [Query (publishing)](/source/Query_(publishing)), document(s) sent to literary agents in a standardised format by authors requesting representation
- [Query (Quaker)](/source/Query_(Quaker)), a question used for reflection and spiritual exercises among members of the Society of Friends
- [The Queries](/source/The_Queries), a set of 31 questions outlined by Isaac Newton beginning in 1704

## See also

- [Queue (disambiguation)](/source/Queue_(disambiguation))

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