quantum

IPA: kwˈɑntʌm

(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) Short for quantum computing. [(computing) The use of quantum mechanical phenomena to transcend classical time complexity limitations in computing.]

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.

Examples of "quantum" in Sentences

It is the quantum analogue of the classical bit.
Speedy machine could bridge classic and quantum computing.
It uses true quantum randomness to randomly permute the list.
Morph and Clump locate Zeus and Quantum by the side of the lake.
He is best known as one of the inventors of quantum cryptography.
Reexamination of optimal quantum state estimation of pure states.
The formalism of quantum mechanics was developed during the 1920s.
Richmond then made the quantum leap to the top of the ladder in 1967.
He was conversant with the quantum mechanics that emerged in the 1920s.
The correct measure of complexity is the size of the quantum computation.
The word quantum is thrown around a lot these days in media like in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?
While the word quantum is now used as an exotic adjective to augment the sales of everything from diets to fishing tackle, the connection proposed here is not trivial.
~ Hidden order found in a quantum spin liquid -- An international team, including scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology, has detected a hidden magnetic quantum order that extends over chains of 100 atoms in a ceramic without classical magnetism.
In 1902, two years after the physicist Max Planck first coined the term quantum to describe the core reality of light, a young British writer named James Allen penned a little book entitled As a Man Thinketh, which drew its title and its message from the biblical verse “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”