skammtur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am̥tʏr

Noun

skammtur m (genitive singular skammts, nominative plural skammtar)

1. a portion
2. a ration
3. a dose, a dosage
4. (physics) quantum, (smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon)

Synonyms

• (portion): hluti
• (dose): lyfjaskammtur
• (physics: quantum): (uncommon) kvanti

Derived terms

• af skornum skammti, vera af skornum skammti (to be scarce, to be a shortage of)

Terms derived from “quantum”.

• skammtaljósnemi (a non-selective quantum detector)
• segulskammtatala (magnetic quantum number)
• boðskammtakenning (neural quantum theory)
• skammtanýtni ljóseindaljóms (photoluminescence quantum yield)
• meginskammtatala (principal quantum number)
• skammtalitfræði (quantum chromodynamics)
• skammtadepill (quantum dot)
• skammtapunktur (quantum dot)
• skammtanýtni (of a detector: quantum efficiency)
• kennilína skammtanýtni (quantum efficiency characteristic)
• skammtarafsegulfræði (quantum electrodynamics)
• skammtaraftækni (quantum electronics)
• skammtasviðsfræði (quantum field theory)
• þyngdarskammtafræði (quantum gravity)
• skammtahrif Halls (quantum Hall effect)
• skammtabiti (qubit)
• skammtastökk (quantum jump)
• skammtafræði (quantum mechanics)
• skammtaaflfræði (quantum mechanics)
• skammtatala (quantum number)
• skammtaeðlisfræði (quantum physics)
• skammtasafnfræði (quantum statistics)
• skammtakenning (synonym: kvantakenning; quantum theory, quantum mechanics)
• skammtagryfja (quantum well)
• skammtabrunnur (quantum well)
• skammtaþráður (quantum wire)