quantum mechanics

English

Noun

quantum mechanics (uncountable)

1. (physics) The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms in place of classical Newtonian ones.
2. (by extension) Something overly complicated or detailed.

   Synonym: rocket science

Translations

branch of physics

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 量子力學／量子力学 (loeng⁶ zi² lik⁶ hok⁶), 量子力学 (loeng⁶ zi² lik⁶ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 量子力學／量子力学 (zh) (liàngzǐ lìxué), 量子力学 (zh) (liàngzǐ lìxué)

  Min Nan: 量子力學／量子力学, 量子力学 (liōng-chú la̍t-ha̍k)

• Czech: kvantová mechanika f
• Danish: kvantemekanik c
• Dutch: kwantummechanica (nl) f
• Esperanto: kvantuma mekaniko
• Finnish: kvanttimekaniikka (fi)
• French: mécanique quantique (fr) f
• German: Quantenmechanik (de) f
• Hebrew: מֶכָנִיקַת הַקְּוַנְטִים f (mekhanikat hak'vantim)
• Hungarian: kvantummechanika (hu)
• Icelandic: skammtafræði (is) f, skammtaaflfræði f
• Indonesian: mekanika kuantum
• Irish: meicnic chandamach f
• Italian: meccanica quantistica (it) f
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• Japanese: 量子力学 (ja) (りょうしりきがく, ryōshi rikigaku)
• Korean: 양자역학 (ko) (yangjayeokhak) (量子力學 (ko))
• Macedonian: ква́нтна меха́ника f (kvántna mehánika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvantemekanikk m

  Nynorsk: kvantemekanikk m

• Persian: مکانیک کوانتوم (mekânik-e koântom)
• Polish: mechanika kwantowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: mecânica quântica f
• Romanian: mecanică cuantică (ro) f
• Russian: ква́нтовая меха́ника f (kvántovaja mexánika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квантна меха̀ника f

  Roman: kvantna mehànika f

• Spanish: mecánica cuántica (es) f
• Swedish: kvantmekanik (sv) c
• Tagalog: damuing sigwasan
• Turkish: kuantum fiziği, kuantum mekaniği, nicem mekaniği, dalga mekaniği
• Vietnamese: cơ học lượng tử

something overly complicated

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高深的事 (gāoshēn de shì)

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• Finnish: korkeampi matematiikka
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• quantum physics
• quantum theory
• uncertainty principle
• wavefunction
• wave-particle duality