Quantum vs Ant - What's the difference?
quantum | ant |
* Burke
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 416:
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 375:
*:Otherwise I will have given the lie to my maxim that whether you work eight or twenty hours, the quantum of work that gets done on a normal day is the same.
* 2008 , The Times of India , 21 May 2008, [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/India_Business/Fuel_price_hike_put_off_over_quantum/articleshow/3087364.cms]:
The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 96:
*:Each man has only a quantum of compassion, he argued, and mine is used up for the day.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 34:
(physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
* 2002 , David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics , Birkhauser 2002, p. 602:
(math) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.
(informal) Of a change, significant.
(physics) Involving quanta.
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(computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer.
Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
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(ornithology) To rub insects, especially , on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
* {{quote-journal, date = 1974
, coauthors = Potter, Eloise and Hauser, Doris
, title = Relationship of anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds
, journal = The Auk
, volume = 91
, url = http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v091n03/p0537-p0563.pdf
, page = 538
, passage = Wild birds tend to ant and sunbathe most frequently during periods of high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.
}}
As a noun quantum
is .As a verb ant is
.quantum
English
(wikipedia quantum)Noun
(quanta)- without authenticating the quantum of the charges
- 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.
- The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness.
- The quantum of light energy was later called a photon .
- (William Kingdon Clifford)
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* quantum algorithm * quantum bit * quantum bogodynamics * quantum brain dynamics * quantum calculus * quantum cascade laser * quantum channel * quantum chaos * quantum chemistry * quantum chromodynamics * quantum circuit * quantum computer * quantum computing * quantum cryptography * quantum darwinism * quantum decoherence * quantum degeneracy * quantum dense coding * quantum dot * quantum effect device * quantum efficiency * quantum electrochemistry * quantum electrodynamics * quantum electronics * quantum entanglement * quantum field theory * quantum fingerprinting * quantum flavordynamics * quantum fluctuation * quantum gate * quantum gauge theory * quantum geometry * quantum gravity * quantum group * quantum gyroscope * quantum Hall effect * quantum harmonic oscillator * quantum heterostructure * quantum history * quantum hydrodynamics * quantum immortality * quantum indeterminacy * quantum inequality * quantum information * quantum jump * quantum leap * quantum level * quantum libet * quantum limit * quantum link * quantum mechanics * quantum network * quantum neural network * quantum number * quantum ontology * quantum operation * quantum optics * quantum phase transition * quantum physics * quantum programming * quantum psychology * quantum randomness * quantum register * quantum scalar field * quantum solvent * quantum sort * quantum state * quantum statistical mechanics * quantum suicide * quantum superposition * quantum teleportation * quantum theory * quantum tomography * quantum valebant * quantum vibration * quantum virtual machine * quantum waveform generator * quantum well * quantum wire * quantum yield * quantum Zeno effectant
English
(wikipedia ant)Alternative forms
* ante, ampteNoun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.}}
