Meaning

9 senses
  1. (South Asia, countable, uncountable)The total amount of something; quantity.

  2. The total amount of something; quantity.

    (South Asia, countable, uncountable)The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.

  3. (South Asia, countable, uncountable)The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The amount or quantity observably present, or available.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.

    Quant, Minimum

    квантkvant

    квантkvant

  6. (countable, uncountable)The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.

  8. (countable, uncountable)Amount of goods produced or demanded.

  9. (countable, uncountable)A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.

More definitions
  • (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
  • a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory

Examples

56 sentences
  1. Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

    Квантова фізика занадто складна, щоб простий смертний міг її зрозуміти. — Internecivus

    ruКвантовая физика слишком сложна, чтобы простой смертный мог её понять. — al_ex_an_der

    deFür einen Normalsterblichen ist die Quantenphysik zu schwer zu verstehen. — Sudajaengi

  2. The book was about quantum physics.

    ruКнига была о квантовой физике. — Balamax

    deDas Buch handelte von Quantenphysik. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. It involves quantum effects, I think.

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  4. This research institute has a quantum computer.

  5. Have you ever studied quantum physics before?

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
indivisible unit of a given quantity:
Русский
By meaning 2
quantity:
indivisible unit of a given quantity:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
quantity:
indivisible unit of a given quantity:

Origin

From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).

From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).

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