quantum
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒntəm/
The English word “quantum” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- The total amount of something; quantity.
- The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
- 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.
- The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
- The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
- The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
- Amount of goods produced or demanded.
- A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
adjective
Etymology
From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).
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