Waterfall vs Quantized - What's the difference?
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A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
(figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
* A waterfall of mist from the open freezer.
(technical, computing, slang)
* ''A very long duration project [...] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.
(quantize)
(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 .
As verbs the difference between waterfall and quantized
is that waterfall is to fall like a waterfall while quantized is past tense of quantize.As a noun waterfall
is a flow of water over the edge of a cliff.As an adjective quantized is
expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization.waterfall
English
(wikipedia waterfall)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flow of water over the edge a cliff): cascade, cataract, saultDerived terms
* coastal waterfall * waterfall bong * waterfall effect * waterfall illusion * waterfall model * waterfall stomachDerived terms
* waterfalled * waterfallingSee also
* smokefallExternal links
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