quantum

noun

(now chiefly South Asia or law) The total amount of something; quantity.

(law) The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.

(law) The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.

The amount or quantity observably present, or available.

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

(computing) The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.

(medicine) The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.

(mathematics) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.

(computing, uncountable) Ellipsis of quantum computing. [(computing) The use of quantum mechanical phenomena to transcend classical time complexity limitations in computing.]

adjective

Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.

(informal) Of a change, significant.

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

(computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer.

Roots

quantusquant- · Latin · how much

Synonyms for quantum

photonn

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