Quantum vs Prospect - What's the difference?
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* 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.
The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
* Milton
A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
* Evelyn
A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
* 1667 , Milton, Paradise Lost
Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
* Bible, Ezekiel xl. 44
The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
* John Locke
* Tillotson
The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
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, title= (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
(music) The of an organ.
As nouns the difference between quantum and prospect
is that quantum is while prospect is the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.As an adjective quantum
is of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.As a verb prospect is
to search, as for gold.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 effectprospect
English
Noun
(en noun)- His eye discovers unaware / The goodly prospect of some foreign land.
- I went to Putney to take prospects in crayon.
- Him God beholding from his prospect high.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.}}
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott. }}