Kex vs Ket - What's the difference?
kex | ket |
The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
(obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
(rare) A dry husk or covering.
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
(physics) A vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by , ...? .
(Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
(Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
(Geordie) A sweet, treat or candy.
As nouns the difference between kex and ket
is that kex is the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants while ket is a vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.As a proper noun Ket is
a people of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Central Siberia, Russia.kex
English
Alternative forms
* kixNoun
(kexes)- On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .
ket
English
Etymology 1
From (term) notation invented by .Noun
(en noun)- A particular ket , say , might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, , would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic . The use of the term (ket) for "candy" or "sweets" probably derived from its use to describe sweet meats or as a deterrent to children.Noun
(en noun)References
*The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 on DICT.org* * *