quantum

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quantums

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The total amount of something; quantity.

   • A certain quantum of power must always exist in the community, in some hands, and under some appellation.
   • The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.
   • The Congress's core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch.

2. 2.The amount or quantity observably present, or available.

   • Each man has only a quantum of compassion, he argued, and mine is used up for the day.

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

   • The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.

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

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

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

2. 2.Of a change, significant.(informal)

3. 3.Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

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