quantum

Etymology
From, noun use of neuter form of.

Pronunciation


Note: in General American, the enunciated form is more common when the word is used on its own; but in connected speech, when it is used as a modifier (as in quantum mechanics), the flapped form is more common.

Noun

 * 1)  The total amount of something; quantity.
 * 2)  The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
 * 3)  The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
 * 4) The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
 * 5)  The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
 * 6) * 2002, David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics, Birkhauser 2002, p. 602:
 * The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.
 * 1)  The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
 * 2)  The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
 * 3)  A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
 * 1)  The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
 * 2) * 2002, David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics, Birkhauser 2002, p. 602:
 * The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.
 * 1)  The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
 * 2)  The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
 * 3)  A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
 * 1)  The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
 * 2)  A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
 * 1)  A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: რაოდენობა
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Malay: kuantiti
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, ,


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: kuantu
 * Bulgarian: квант
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 量子
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კვანტა, კვანტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: candam
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: کوانتم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: ควอนตัม
 * Vietnamese: (量子)

Adjective

 * 1) Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.
 * 2)  Of a change, significant.
 * 3)  Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.
 * 4)  Relating to a quantum computer.
 * 1)  Relating to a quantum computer.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: квантов
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: kwantum-
 * Esperanto: kvantuma
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: кванттық
 * Polish:, kwantowa, kwantowe
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ква́нтовий
 * Vietnamese: (量子)

Etymology
From.

Etymology
, from. , which was also re-borrowed with the same meaning as. .

Determiner

 * 1) (when coupled with ) as much of  as
 * 2) how high, how dear, as dear as
 * 1) how high, how dear, as dear as

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)   indivisible unit of a given quantity