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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"word": "azimuthal quantum number"
},
{
"word": "cavity quantum electrodynamics"
},
{
"word": "loop quantum gravity"
},
{
"word": "magnetic quantum number"
},
{
"word": "orbital quantum number"
},
{
"word": "principal quantum number"
},
{
"word": "quantize"
},
{
"word": "quantum acoustics"
},
{
"word": "quantum algorithm"
},
{
"word": "quantum anomaly"
},
{
"word": "quantum biology"
},
{
"word": "quantum biophysics"
},
{
"word": "quantum bit"
},
{
"word": "⇒ qubit"
},
{
"word": "⇒ qu-"
},
{
"word": "quantum bogodynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum brain"
},
{
"word": "quantum brain dynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum byte"
},
{
"word": "quantum calculus"
},
{
"word": "quantum cascade laser"
},
{
"word": "quantum catalyst"
},
{
"word": "quantum channel"
},
{
"word": "quantum chaos"
},
{
"word": "quantum chemistry"
},
{
"word": "quantum chromodynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum circuit"
},
{
"word": "quantum clock"
},
{
"word": "quantum cloning"
},
{
"word": "quantum coherence"
},
{
"word": "quantum cohomology"
},
{
"word": "quantum computation"
},
{
"word": "quantum computer"
},
{
"word": "quantum computing"
},
{
"word": "quantum cryptography"
},
{
"word": "quantum darwinism"
},
{
"word": "quantum decoherence"
},
{
"word": "quantum degeneracy"
},
{
"word": "quantum dense coding"
},
{
"word": "quantum discord"
},
{
"word": "quantum dot"
},
{
"word": "quantum effect device"
},
{
"word": "quantum efficiency"
},
{
"word": "quantum electrochemistry"
},
{
"word": "quantum electrodynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum electronics"
},
{
"word": "quantum-entangled"
},
{
"word": "quantum entanglement"
},
{
"word": "quantum eraser"
},
{
"word": "quantum ferrofluid"
},
{
"word": "quantum field"
},
{
"word": "quantum field theory"
},
{
"word": "quantum fingerprinting"
},
{
"word": "quantum flavordynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum fluctuation"
},
{
"word": "quantum foam"
},
{
"word": "quantum game theory"
},
{
"word": "quantum gate"
},
{
"word": "quantum gauge theory"
},
{
"word": "quantum geometry"
},
{
"word": "quantum graphity"
},
{
"word": "quantum gravitation"
},
{
"word": "quantum gravity"
},
{
"word": "quantum group"
},
{
"word": "quantum gyroscope"
},
{
"word": "quantum hadrodynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum Hall effect"
},
{
"word": "quantum harmonic oscillator"
},
{
"word": "quantum heterostructure"
},
{
"word": "quantum history"
},
{
"word": "quantum hydrodynamics"
},
{
"word": "quantum imaging"
},
{
"word": "quantum immortality"
},
{
"word": "quantum indeterminacy"
},
{
"word": "quantum inequality"
},
{
"word": "quantum information"
},
{
"word": "quantum information science"
},
{
"word": "quantum information theory"
},
{
"word": "quantum Internet"
},
{
"english": "calqued from Dutch",
"word": "quantum jump"
},
{
"english": "calqued from Dutch",
"word": "quantum leap"
},
{
"word": "quantum level"
},
{
"word": "quantum limit"
},
{
"word": "quantum link"
},
{
"word": "quantum logic"
},
{
"word": "quantum logic gate"
},
{
"word": "quantum measurement problem"
},
{
"word": "quantum mechanical"
},
{
"word": "quantum-mechanical"
},
{
"word": "quantum-mechanically"
},
{
"word": "quantum mechanics"
},
{
"word": "quantum mysticism"
},
{
"word": "quantum network"
},
{
"word": "quantum neural network"
},
{
"word": "quantum number"
},
{
"word": "quantum onion"
},
{
"word": "quantum ontology"
},
{
"word": "quantum operation"
},
{
"word": "quantum operator"
},
{
"word": "quantum optics"
},
{
"word": "quantum phase transition"
},
{
"word": "quantum physics"
},
{
"word": "quantum processing unit"
},
{
"word": "quantum process tomography"
},
{
"word": "quantum programming"
},
{
"word": "quantum psychology"
},
{
"word": "quantum randomness"
},
{
"word": "quantum register"
},
{
"word": "quantum scalar field"
},
{
"word": "quantum solid"
},
{
"word": "quantum solvent"
},
{
"word": "quantum sort"
},
{
"word": "quantum soup"
},
{
"word": "quantum source"
},
{
"word": "quantum spin"
},
{
"word": "⇒ quantum spin liquid"
},
{
"word": "quantum state"
},
{
"word": "quantum statistical mechanics"
},
{
"word": "quantum sufficit"
},
{
"word": "quantum suicide"
},
{
"word": "quantum superposition"
},
{
"word": "quantum supremacy"
},
{
"word": "quantum teleportation"
},
{
"word": "quantum theory"
},
{
"word": "quantum tomography"
},
{
"word": "quantum tunnel"
},
{
"word": "quantum tunnelling"
},
{
"word": "quantum unit of spin"
},
{
"word": "quantum valebat"
},
{
"word": "quantum vibration"
},
{
"word": "quantum virtual machine"
},
{
"word": "quantum volume"
},
{
"word": "quantum waveform generator"
},
{
"word": "quantum well"
},
{
"word": "quantum wire"
},
{
"word": "quantum yield"
},
{
"word": "quantum Zeno effect"
},
{
"word": "spin quantum number"
},
{
"word": "subquantum"
}
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"3": "quantum"
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"2": "la",
"3": "quantus",
"4": "",
"5": "how much"
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"discrete"
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"English informal terms"
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"Of a change, significant."
],
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"significant",
"significant"
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"(informal) Of a change, significant."
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"not-comparable"
]
},
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{
"word": "classical"
}
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"English terms with quotations",
"en:Physics",
"en:Quantum mechanics"
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{
"ref": "2012 January 16, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2017-06-19, page 86",
"text": "Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.",
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"Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics."
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[
"physics",
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"quanta",
"quanta"
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"quantum mechanics",
"quantum mechanics"
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"(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics."
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"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
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"word": "classical"
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"English terms with quotations",
"en:Physics",
"en:Quantum mechanics",
"en:Theory of computing"
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"Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.",
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[
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[
"quantum computer",
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"(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.",
"(computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer."
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"not-comparable"
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"computing-theory",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics",
"sciences"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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"ipa": "/ˈkwɑntəm/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkʰwɑn.tʰəm]",
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"Canada",
"US"
]
},
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "liàngzǐ",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "量子"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "suuri"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "merkittävä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "määrällinen"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryōshi",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "量子"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "značítelʹnyj",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "значи́тельный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "suščéstvennyj",
"sense": "significant (of a change)",
"word": "суще́ственный"
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʿvantayin",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "քվանտային"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kvantov",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "квантов"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "liàngzǐ",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "量子"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "kwantum-"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "kvantuma"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "quantique"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "quantico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "quantistico"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryōshi",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "量子"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "kvanttyq",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "кванттық"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "involving quanta",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "involving quanta",
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"sense": "involving quanta",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "involving quanta",
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{
"code": "ru",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "cuántico"
},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "kvant-"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "kvántovyj",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "ква́нтовий"
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{
"alt": "量子",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "involving quanta",
"word": "lượng tử"
}
],
"word": "quantum"
}
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