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Quantum is an Australian television show about science and technology that aired on ABC television for 16 years. It aired its last episode on 26 April 2001, and has been replaced by Catalyst .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quantum \Quan"tum\, n.; pl. Quanta . [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See Quantity ,] Quantity; amount. ``Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges.'' --Burke. (Math.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages. 2 (context informal English) Of a change, significant. 3 (context physics English) Involving quanta. n. 1 (context now chiefly South Asia English) The total amount of something; quantity. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES quantum computer quantum leap ▪ There has been a quantum leap in the range of the wines sold in the UK. quantum mechanics quantum theory quantum/great/huge etc leap ▪ a quantum leap very great increase or change in population ...

Usage examples of quantum.

The most astonishing thing was that her conception of the cosmos was basically the same as the one I had sketched out back at Cal Tech, an infinite number of anthropic universes shuffling and reshuffling, combining on a quantum level.

When the next quantum jump comes, from automated self-servicing machinery that can produce all the goods we want with hardly any human intervention, what happens to the Protestant Ethic?

What Prospero and Caliban, two characters from an ancient Shakespearean play, are doing waiting for us on this real Earth, and why the quantum basis for the entire solar system is being screwed up by these Brane Holes that keep popping up.

The malpractice stuff had been more than enough to seriously disrupt and alter his life, but this criminal nonsense was a quantum leap worse, like throwing salt into a mortal wound.

Nam praesidio e regione castrorum relicto et parva manu Metiosedum versus missa, quae tantum progrediatur, quantum naves processissent, reliquas copias contra Labienum duxerunt.

From the apparently indivisible quanta of physical energy, to the boundaries between the solid, liquid and gaseous states - the manyness of the energy patterns is prevented from becoming one homogeneous and ill-defined spectrum by threshold effects.

Earth will follow after which the Vile Offspring will core the planet like an apple, dismantle it into a cloud of newly formed quantum nanocomputers to add to their burgeoning Matrioshka brain.

Vile Offspring will core the planet like an apple, dismantle it into a cloud of newly formed quantum nanocomputers to add to their burgeoning Matrioshka brain.

Earth will follow -- after which the Vile Offspring will core the planet like an apple, and dismantle it into a cloud of newly formed quantum nanocomputers to add to their burgeoning Matrioshka brain.

Theoretically, no one is directly responsible for my execution, since the immutable laws of quantum theory pardon or condemn me from each microsecond to the next.

Extraordinary modulus of tensile strength approaches quantum limits, enabling use as skyline cable.

For science students and teachers, I hope this book will crystallize some of the foundational material of modern physics, such as special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics, while conveying the contagious excitement of researchers closing in on the long-sought unified theory.

This quixotic quest isolated Einstein from the mainstream of physics, which, understandably, was far more excited about delving into the newly emerging framework of quantum mechanics.

Zero-one silicon switch, zero-one quantum foam bubbling up into prokaryote paramecium parakeet philosopher, what difference does it make?

These are the mysteries of the quanta, but perhaps the most important for us, is the following: Reality does not exist unless it is observed.