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quanta
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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 ...
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n. (plural of quantum English)
Usage examples of quanta.
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.
In searching for God, we find Its fingerprint in the quanta, and those same quanta affect the very function of our brains.
Anyhow, she was telling me about the quanta, about the change in energy when something is observed.
Through mathematics, we can describe the quanta holistically, but through observation, we can only document one event, much like seeing a single facet of a cut diamond.
And I hope to your cursed quanta, that Ily dies last so she can know what she did.
It was the dance of the quanta, the joke so painfully played on all of them.
A ceramic cutting tool might appear solid, but in the realm of the quanta, solidity vanishes into electron clouds and subatomic forces.
In the name of the quanta, Myles told himself yet again, there are only so many ways to divide the remaining resources.
There was no more reason why they should be aware, intuitively, that their reality was ultimately founded upon information quanta than we are that ours is on energy quanta.
The Ents were composed at the elementary level of information-processing quanta, after all, and it did not seem so strange that they should be able to influence things around them by what they would perceive as thought.
When you do that, the angel effect can be explained as a slow decay of these constituent quanta into fields of good that directly affect people nearby.
Jereko, there are enough people even here at the Institute who are uncomfortable with the idea that angels are quanta of good.
To see if I can find and identify an anti-angel, the equivalent quanta of evil.
Probabilities, wave functions, interference, and quanta all involve radically new ways of seeing reality.
A rapidly accelerating retreat, faster and faster, as the disc changed from the dull red of normal defense to the higher and bluer quanta of failing, less complete defense, the disc of interference retreated.