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Quantized vs Quantised - What's the difference?

quantized | quantised |

As verbs the difference between quantized and quantised

is that quantized is past tense of quantize while quantised is past tense of quantise.

As an adjective quantized

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

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  • (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 .

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    • quantise

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