quantum
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[edit] English
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From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).
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quantum (plural quanta)
- (now chiefly South Asia) The total amount of something; quantity. [from 17th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 416:
- The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.
- 2008, The Times of India, 21 May 2008, [1]:
- The Congress's core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 416:
- The amount or quantity observably present, or available. [from 18th c.]
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 34:
- The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus [transl. Reizquantum] proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 34:
- (physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. [from 20th c.]
- 2002, David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics, Birkhauser 2002, p. 602:
- The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.
- 2002, David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics, Birkhauser 2002, p. 602:
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quantity
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indivisible unit of a given quantity
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quantum (not comparable)
- (informal) Of a change, significant
- (physics) Involving quanta
- (computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer
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significant (of a change)
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involving quanta
[edit] French
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From English quantum.
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- IPA: /kɑ̃tɔm/, /kwɑ̃tɔm/
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quantum m. (plural quanta)
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quantum m. (plural quanta)
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quantum
- nominative neuter singular of quantus
- accusative masculine singular of quantus
- accusative neuter singular of quantus
- vocative neuter singular of quantus
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quantum (with genitive)
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