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Quantize vs Quantized - What's the difference?

quantize | quantized |

As verbs the difference between quantize and quantized

is that quantize is to limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics while quantized is past tense of quantize.

As an adjective quantized is

expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization.

quantize

English

Verb

(quantiz)
  • (physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
  • (telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
  • (music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale

    • Derived terms

    * quantization

    quantized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (quantize)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics) Expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization.
  • *2011 , & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe , Allen Lane 2011, p. 96:
  • *:This is very clear for the standing waves on a guitar string: the fundamental has a wavelength of twice the length of the string, and the next longest allowed wavelength is equal to the length of the string. There is no standing wave with a wavelength between these two and so we can say that the allowed wavelengths on a guitar string are quantized .