skammtur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am̥tʏr

Noun

skammtur m (genitive singular skammts, nominative plural skammtar)

1. portion

   Synonym: hluti

2. ration
3. dose, dosage

   Synonym: lyfjaskammtur

4. (physics) quantum (smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon)

   Synonym: (uncommon) kvanti

Declension

Declension of skammtur (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skammtur	skammturinn	skammtar	skammtarnir
accusative	skammt	skammtinn	skammta	skammtana
dative	skammti	skammtinum	skömmtum	skömmtunum
genitive	skammts	skammtsins	skammta	skammtanna

Derived terms

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

Terms derived from “quantum”.

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