quantization

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English

Alternative forms

• quantisation

Etymology

quantize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kwântĭzāshôn
• Hyphenation: quan‧ti‧za‧tion

Noun

quantization (countable and uncountable; plural quantizations)

1. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values.
2. (countable, physics) A procedure for constructing a quantum field theory starting from a classical field theory.

Translations

process of approximating a continuous signal

• Czech: kvantování (cs) n, kvantizace (cs) f
• French: quantification (fr) f
• German: Quantisierung (de)

• Korean: 양자화 (ko) (yangjahwa)
• Spanish: cuantificación (es) f

in physics

• Czech: kvantování (cs) n
• Icelandic: skömmtun (is) f

• Spanish: cuantificación (es) f, (neologism) cuantización (es) f

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• Catalan: quántizació
• Dutch: kwantisatie
• Estonian: kvantimine
• Finnish: kvantittuminen
• French: quantisation
• Greek: κβάντωση (el) (kvantosi or kvandosi) f
• Hungarian: kvantálás

• Italian: quantizzazione f (all)
• Japanese: 量子 (ryōshi)
• Latin: quantizatio m
• Portuguese: quantizacão
• Russian: квантование (kvantovanie)
• Swedish: kvantisering c