Definizione monolingua

quantum

quantum (plural quanta)

1. (now chiefly South Asia) The total amount of something; quantity. [from 17th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 416:

     The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.

   • 2008, The Times of India, 21 May 2008, [1]:

     The Congresss core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch.

2. The amount or quantity observably present, or available. [from 18th c.]
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 34:

     The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus [transl. Reizquantum] proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness.

3. (physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. [from 20th c.]
   • 2002, David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics, Birkhauser 2002, p. 602:

     The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.

quantum (not comparable)

1. (informal) Of a change, significant
2. (physics) Involving quanta
3. (computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer

Definizione dizionario quantum

	quanto
	(fisica) La più piccola unità possibile di una quantità data.
	(physics) the smallest possible unit of a given quantity.

	quantico
	involving quanta

	quantistico
	involving quanta

Altri significati:

(physics) Involving quanta

A brief period of time when a given thread executes in a multitasking operating system. It performs the multitasking before it is rescheduled against other threads with the same priority. Previously known as a "time slice."

indivisible unit of a given quantity

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

quantity

(archaic except in South Asian dialects) Quantity, amount.

significant (of a change)

(informal) Of a change, significant