Большой англо-русский словарь:
quest
1. имя существительное;
литературно-книжное
1) поиск(и)
Например: in quest of somebody / something — в поисках кого-либо / чего-либо
quest for oil — поиск нефти
2)
поэтическое предмет поисков, искомый предмет
3)
история; историческое поиски приключений (в рыцарских романах)
4)
устаревшее сбор пожертвований (в Римско-католической церкви)
2. глагол;
литературно-книжное
1) (quest for) искать; производить поиски, разыскивать
Например: For over 100 years, men have been questing for gold in the hills. — Уже больше ста лет люди искали в этих холмах золото.
2)
а)
охотничий термин искать дичь (о собаках)
б) искать пищу (о животных)
3)
устаревшее собирать пожертвования (в католической церкви)
Англо-русский словарь экономических терминов:
quest
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
quest
I. noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French
queste, Vulgar Latin *
quaesta, from Latin,
feminine of
quaestus, past participle of
quaerere
Date: 14th century
1.
a. a jury of inquest
b. investigation
2. an act or instance of seeking:
a. pursuit,
search
b. a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey
3. obsolete a person or group of persons who search or make inquiry
II. verb
Date: 14th century
intransitive verb
1. of a dog
a. to search a trail
b. bay
2. to go on a quest
transitive verb
1. to search for
2. to ask for
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quester noun
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
quest
1. A language designed for its simple denotational semantics.
"The Denotational Semantics of Programming Languages",
R. Tennent, CACM 19(8):437-453 (Aug 1976).
2. QUantifiers and SubTypes. Language with a sophisticated
type system. Just as types classify values, "kinds" classify
types and type operators. Explicit universal and existential
quantification over types, type operators, and subtypes.
Subtyping is defined inductively on all type constructions,
including higher-order functions and abstract types.
User-definable higher-order type operators.
"Typeful Programming", Luca Cardelli
, RR
45, DEC SRC 1989.
Implemented in Modula-3.
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Quest/quest12A.tar.Z .
3. A multimedia authoring system. Quest has
been available for MS-DOS for some time. Version 3.5 for
Microsoft Windows was released around March 1995. It
features an Authorware-style flowchart system with an
{ANSI-C} script language.
(1995-04-02) 
