Quantum

Definition: Quantum

Quantum

Noun

1. How much there is of something that you can measure.

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

Date "quantum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Quantum time slice. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Chemistry	Smallest amount of a physical quantity that can be associated with given phenomenon, when the observable quantity is restricted to a discrete set of values. Source: European Union. (references)
Physics	The elementary energy of radiation of frequency v: the energy hv. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Qubit	English	Quantum bit	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Quantum

Synonyms: amount (n), measure (n), quantity (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Apportionment	Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte.
Change	Interjection: quantum mutatus!
Evidence	Adverb: by inference; according to, witness, a fortiori; still more, still less; raison de plus; in corroboration; n. of; valeat quantum; under seal, under one's hand and seal.
Ignorance	Phrase: "ignorance never settles a question"; quantum animis erroris inest!; "small Latin and less Greek"; "that unlettered small-knowing soul"; "there is no darkness but ignorance".
Indiscrimination	Phrase: valeat quantum valere potest.
Quantity	Noun: quantity, magnitude; size; (dimensions); amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force.
Revolution	Noun: revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution.
Sufficiency	Noun: sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence; no less; quantum sufficit, Q.S.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Quantum

English words defined with "quantum": Bohr theory, born ♦ Dirac ♦ energy level, energy state, exclusion principle ♦ Hoffmann ♦ ignorant, illiterate ♦ Max Born, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, Max Planck ♦ Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Pauli exclusion principle, photon, Planck, Planck's law, probabilistic ♦ QED, Quanta, quantal, quantisation, quantization, quantized, quantum electrodynamics, quantum field theory, quantum jump, quantum leap, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Quantum sufficit ♦ relativistic, Roald Hoffmann ♦ wave mechanics. (references)

Specialty definitions using "quantum": bit decay, bit rot, blackbody radiation, blargh ♦ Compton electron ♦ Digital Linear Tape ♦ Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling ♦ hacker humor ♦ LEOPOLD, line width, lumped variance test, Lynceus ♦ Planck equation, PLANCK'S ♦ Q.P, Q.S, Q.V, QL, QUANTIZE, quantum cell, quantum cell wire, quantum computation, quantum computer, quantum computing, quantum theory of radiation, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata ♦ Serpentine Verses, single-electron transistor, SPEC CFP92, stimulated emission ♦ time quantum ♦ useful area. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Quantum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (quantum), German (quantity, quota, ration), Latin (amount, as much as, as much of .. as, as much of ... as, degree, how far, how great, how much, how much!, many, number, of what size, price, quantum, regard to, so much as, the greater, the more, worth), Manx (quantum), Portuguese (quantum), Spanish (quantum).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Actually, we're Quantum Presbyterians. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Who wanted to muck around in the dirt when you could be studying quantum mechanics? (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) The food court is downstairs the cookie stand is upstairs it's not like we're talking quantum physics here! (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith) I prefer to think of it as quantum cheating. (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) Yeah, but I didn't lose my virginity listening to one of his lectures on quantum theory! (Something Wilder; writing credit: Ralph Farquhar; Gary Hardwick)
Clever	Quantum mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Quantum Project (2000) The Vortex: Quantum Gate II (1994) Quantum Gate (1993) Kabuki Quantum Fighter (1990) Quantum Leap: Genesis (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	American Quantum Cycles, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) NBA Quantum PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Quantum Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Quantum Effect Devices, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Yang-Baxter Equation and Quantum Enveloping Algebras (Advanced Series on Theoretical Physical Science, Vol 1) (reference) Physics and Nonperturbative Quantum Chromodynamics: Proceedings of the Joint Ect/Jlab Workshop, Trento, Italy, May 18-29, 1998 (Few-Body Systems. sup (reference) Magneto-Optics Under Conditions of the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Si Mosfet (Soviet Scientific Reviews Series, Section A) (reference) Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins (reference) Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Ieee Journal Of Quantum Electronics (reference) Journal Of Optics B : Quantum And Semiclassical Optics (reference) Progress In Quantum Electronics (reference) Quantum (reference) Quantum Cuerecon (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Power Rangers Time Force - Quantum Ranger - Clash for Control (reference) Quantum Leap: The Leap Home (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Vortex - Quantum Gate II: Original Soundtrack, From The Virtual Cinema Interactive Movie [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Quantum Leap: Music From The Television Series [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Quantum Fighter Pad (reference) Quantum Redshift (reference) Quantum Snap Snap! 120GB Enet 10/100 Server Model 4000 Quantum Branded Ext (reference) QUANTUM WAVE W/1-MMT KEYBOARD (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite in bare existence as a labourer. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Holiday cruises have grown in quantum leaps in the last two years. (references)
		Major foreign suppliers of HDDs to Korea include Quantum Korea, Maxtor Korea, Seagate Technologies, IBM Korea, Korea Mitsumi Co., Ltd., and Fujitsu. (references)
		Major American suppliers of memory disk drives, such as Quantum, IBM, Western Digital, and Maxtor have local subsidiaries, which promote their products through their own nationwide sales networks. (references)
Economic History	Yemen	Balance of Payments: Yemen ran a current account surplus in 2000 of approximately $1.4 billion, a quantum leap from the small surplus of $268 million in 1999 and a $455 million deficit in 1998. Analysts predict a sizeable surplus again in 2001, provided that world oil prices remain in the $22-25 per barrel range. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	A space station will permit quantum leaps in our research in science, communications, in metals, and in lifesaving medicines which could be manufactured only in space.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Quantum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.46% of the time. "Quantum" is used about 776 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.46%	764	8,991
Noun (proper)	1.29%	10	111,207
Noun (common)	0.26%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	776	N/A

Country	Name	Country	Name
United Kingdom	NBA Quantum PLC	USA	American Quantum Cycles, Inc.
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Expressions using "quantum": density of quantum states ♦ light quantum ♦ quantum absorption yield ♦ quantum animis erroris inest! ♦ quantum bogodynamics ♦ quantum cell ♦ quantum cell wire ♦ quantum chromodynamics ♦ quantum computer ♦ quantum computing ♦ quantum dot ♦ quantum efficiency ♦ quantum electrodynamics ♦ quantum field theory ♦ Quantum healing ♦ quantum index ♦ quantum jump ♦ quantum leap ♦ Quantum Leap Chi Gong therapy ♦ quantum mechanics ♦ quantum meruit ♦ quantum noise ♦ quantum number ♦ quantum of action ♦ quantum orbit ♦ quantum path ♦ quantum physics ♦ Quantum Shiatsu ♦ quantum suff ♦ quantum sufficit ♦ Quantum Theory ♦ quantum theory of radiation ♦ QUANTUM THERAPY ♦ quantum valebat ♦ quantum well strained layer ♦ quantum yield ♦ superconducting quantum interference device ♦ Superconducting Quantum Interferometer Device ♦ time quantum ♦ valeat quantum valere potest. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "quantum": Quantum-dot Cellular Automata, quantum-jumping, quantum-mechanical, quantum-optical, quantum-well.
	Ending with "quantum": pre-quantum.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "quantum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), sasi (amount, body, greatness, intake, lot, lump, mass, number, pack, quantity, run, sum, worth), pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), kuanti, kuant. (various references)

Arabic		‏وحدة من الطاقة في الفيزياء, ‏حصة (allocation, allotment, class, class period, cut, dividend, lesson, lot, part, percentage, period, portion, proportion, ration, share, slice, whack), ‏الكم. (various references)

Bulgarian		сума (amount, count, figure, heaps of, number, power, sum, tot, total), част (concern, detachment, division, fraction, interest, lap, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), квант, количество (amount, deal, measure, number, percentage, quantity, volume), дял (allocation, allotment, concern, contingent, deal, dos, interest, lobe, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quota, sector, segment, share, slice, snack, value, whack). (various references)

Chinese		量子 . (various references)

Czech		množství (amount, bulk, lot, many, measure, multitude, number, plurality, quantity, shoal, volume), kvantum (amount). (various references)

Danish		kvante. (various references)

Dutch		quantum (energy quantum), quant, lichtquantum (energy quantum, light quantum). (various references)

Finnish		kvantti (quant). (various references)

French		quantum (energy quantum). (various references)

German		Quant, Betrag (absolute value, amount, amount dude, modulus, sum). (various references)

Greek		κβάντο, ποσότησ ενέργειασ, ποσότητα ενέργειασ, ποσοστό (percentage, proportion, quota). (various references)

Hungarian		tömeg (accumulation, body, bulk, cloud, clump, concourse, concrete, confluence, conglomerate, crowd, crush, drove, gross, heap, hoi polloi, host, mass, mob, multiplicity, multitude, pack, pile, quantity, regiment, shoal, swarm, throng), mennyiség (amount, complement, deal, magnitude, quantity, stack, stint), kvantum. (various references)

Italian		quantum, quanto (all those, as, as much as, both ... and, how, how long, how many, how much, than, what, what a lot), quantistico (quantic), quantico (quantic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		量子 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		りょうし (both persons, fisherman, good teacher, hunter, huntsman, writing paper). (various references)

Korean		양 (Quant, Quanta, Quantities, Quantitive, Quantity, sheep, Volume). (various references)

Manx		quantum. (various references)

Pig Latin		antumquay

Portuguese		quantum, quanto (as, how, how many, how much, like), quantidade (a good deal, amount, batch, brew, deal, length, measure, number, share), porção (allotment, collection, dip, dole, dose, lot, piece, portion, potion, section, share, slice), parte (deal, it leaves, leaves, lot, parcel, part, Parthian, piece, portion, quota, role, section, share, snack, suitor), fração (crumb, fraction, fragment, part, portion, side, subdivision, tithe). (various references)

Romanian		cuantum, cuantic, cuantã. (various references)

Russian		частица (corpuscle, fraction, particle, speck), квантовый, квант, количество (amount, amt amount, forkful, number, quantities, quantity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kvantni, kvant. (various references)

Spanish		cuanto (all that, as much as, that, when). (various references)

Swedish		mängd (accumulation, amount, capacity, crowd, extent, heap, incidence, lot, mass, multitude, no end of, pack, pile, quantity, set, shoal, throng, variety), kvanta. (various references)

Turkish		tutar (aggregate, amount, quanta, sum, total, volume), pay (allocation, allotment, apportionment, concern, cut, hand, interest, kickback, margin, moiety, numerator, part, portion, proportion, quanta, quota, share, shareout, slice, snack, take, toll, whack), nicem, miktar (amount, deal, measure, number, portion, proportion, quanta, quantitative, quantity, sum, supply), kuantum (quanta), hisse (allotment, holding, interest, kickback, lot, moiety, percent, portion, quota, share, shareout, slice). (various references)

Ukrainian		сума (number, sum, total), частина (Cantle, dividend, half, part, portion, proportion, quotient, section, segment, share, side, snick, strand), квант. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	quantum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 22, Verse 41
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai autoV apespasqh ap autwn wsei liqou bolhn kai qeiV ta gonata proshuceto
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et ipse avulsus est ab eis quantum iactus est lapidis et positis genibus orabat
Old English	990	West Saxon	And he wæs fram him alocen swa mycel swa is anes stanes wyrp: and gebigedum cneowum he hyne gebæd
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he was taken awei fro hem, so myche as is a stonys cast; and he knelide,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And he gate him selfe from them about a stones cast and kneled doune and prayed
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And he went a little distance away from them and, falling on his knees in prayer, he said,
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Language	Luke Chapter 22, Verse 41
Cebuano	Ug siya mipahawa kanila sa gilay-on nga malabay ug bato, ug didto miluhod ug nag-ampo siya,
Croatian	I otrgnu se od njih koliko bi se kamenom dobacilo, pade na koljena pa se molio:
Danish	Og han rev sig løs fra dem, så meget som et Stenkast, og faldt på Knæ, bad og sagde:
Dutch	En Hij scheidde Zich van hen af, omtrent een steenworp; en knielde neder en bad,
Finnish	Ja hän vetäytyi heistä noin kivenheiton päähän, laskeutui polvilleen ja rukoili
French	Puis il s`éloigna d`eux � la distance d`environ un jet de pierre, et, s`étant mis � genoux, il pria,
German	Und er riß sich von ihnen einen Steinwurf weit und kniete nieder, betete
Hungarian	És õ eltávozék tõlök mintegy kõhajításnyira; és térdre esvén, imádkozék,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kemudian Ia pergi lebih jauh sedikit dari mereka, kira-kira sejauh lemparan batu, lalu berlutut dan berdoa.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka Yesus pun undur daripada mereka itu sekira-kira sepelempar batu jauhnya, lalu bertelut dan berdoa,
Maori	Na ka mawehe atu ia i a ratou, kei to te taunga kamaka te matara, a ka tuku i ona turi ka inoi,
Norwegian	Og han slet sig fra dem så lang som et stenkast, og falt på kne, bad og sa:
Portuguese	E apartou-se deles cerca de um tiro de pedra; e pondo-se de joelhos, orava,
Rumanian	Apoi S`a depqrtat de ei ca la o aruncqturq de piatrq, a kngenuncheat, wi a knceput sq Se roage,
Shuar	Tuasua amik arantach, kaya nankimiam jeana Núnik Jesus wémiayi. Tura Yúsan áujsataj tusa tikishmarmiayi.
Swahili	Kisha akawaacha, akaenda umbali wa mtu kuweza kutupa jiwe, akapiga magoti, akasali:
Swedish	Sedan gick han bort ifrån dem, vid pass ett stenkast, och föll ned på sina knän och bad
Uma	Oti toe, pai' hilou-i molaa hala' ngkai hira', pai' -i mowilingkudu mosampaya.
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Misspellings
	"Quantum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: khanoum, Quandom, quantam, Quanto, Quantom, quantume, quantums, quantun, quantus, quantuum, Quarndon, quintium, quntum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "quantum" (pronounced kwÄ"ntum or kwÄ"num)
4	-n t u m	Bantam, centum, momentum, phantom.
3	-t u m	accustom, ageratum, antemortem, arboretum, atom, autumn, bottom, custom, datum, dictum, ecosystem, item, rectum, sanctum, stratum, subsystem, symptom, system, totem, ultimatum, verbatim, victim.
3	-n u m	acronym, aluminium, aluminum, arcanum, denim, duodenum, granum, interregnum, lanthanum, laudanum, magnum, molybdenum, organum, phenom, platinum, plenum, tympanum, venom.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-m-n-q-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: autumn.
	-2 letters: quant.
	-3 letters: aunt, maun, maut, tuna, unau.
	-4 letters: amu, ant, man, mat, mun, mut, nam, nut, qat, qua, tam, tan, tau, tun, uta.
	-5 letters: am, an, at, ma, mu, na, nu, ta, um, un, ut.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
quantum	1,186	quantum model	38
quantum physics	316	quantum fireball hard drive	37
quantum hard drive	278	quantum fireball cx	34
quantum fireball	269	entanglement quantum	34
proadult quantum	226	mbna quantum	33
quantum mechanics	221	quantum big foot	32
quantum leap	213	microponents quantum	32
quantum reel	122	quantum battery	30
quantum theory	105	quantum resource	30
quantum computer	86	quantum red shift	29
quantum fishing reel	79	quantum field theory	29
quantum dot	77	quantum hard disk	29
quantum computing	73	quantum fishing rod	29
quantum satinover	68	quantum sail	29
quantum brain	60	quantum f replica	28
quantum fishing	49	quantum technology	26
quantum gravity	45	quantum drive	25
quantum disk manager	44	quantum corporation	25
arai quantum	40	quantum instrument	25
arai quantum f	39	quantum snap server	25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Quantum

Definition: Quantum

Quantum

Noun

Specialty Definition: Quantum

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Quantum

Synonyms: Quantum

Synonyms within Context: Quantum

Apportionment

Change

Evidence

Ignorance

Indiscrimination

Quantity

Revolution

Sufficiency

Crosswords: Quantum

Modern Usage: Quantum

Screenplays

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

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Theater & Movies

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Historic Usage: Quantum

Communist Manifesto

Non-Fiction Usage: Quantum

Speeches: Quantum

Ronald Reagan

Usage Frequency: Quantum

Usage in Company Names: Quantum

NBA Quantum PLC

American Quantum Cycles, Inc.

Expression: Quantum

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Quantum

Modern Translation: Quantum

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Ancestral Language Translations: Quantum

Bible Trace: Quantum

Matched Bible Translations: Quantum

Misspellings: Quantum

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Anagrams: Quantum

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