quantum

[Quan·tum]

While quantum refers to a general quantity or size, it is most often used in physics as a measure of the smallest amount of something usually energy that something can possess. The plural form is quanta.

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Quantity; amount.

Noun
(physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)

Noun
a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantum in quantum theory

n.
Quantity; amount.

n.
A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.

Quantum

Quan"tum , n.; pl. Quanta . [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See Quantity,] 1. Quantity; amount. "Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges." Burke. 2. (Math.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary. W. K. Clifford. Quantum meruit [L., as much as he merited] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve. -- Quantum sufficit , ∨ Quantum suff. [L., as much suffices] (Med.), a sufficient quantity. -- Quantum valebat [L., as much at it was worth] (Law), a count in an action to recover of the defendant, for goods sold, as much as they were worth. Blackstone.

Quantity; amount.

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Usage Examples

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

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Other Usage Examples

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.