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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quanta
noun
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▪ Einstein's paper showed that you could directly observe individual quanta.
▪ He called these bundles of energy quanta.
▪ However later investigations showed that the quanta were indeed persistent.
▪ The quanta are individually so small that their interactions, statistically averaged, appear continuous.
▪ The quantum model in physics contains the possibility that individual quanta can be at different energy levels.
▪ This indicates an increase in the mean number of quanta released per trial.
▪ You would still have the problem of needing a large gamma ray detector to observe several gamma ray quanta from the explosion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quanta

Quantum \Quan"tum\, n.; pl. Quanta. [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See Quantity,]

  1. Quantity; amount. ``Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges.''
    --Burke.

  2. (Math.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
    --W. K. Clifford.

    Quantum meruit[L., as much as he merited] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve.

    Quantum sufficit, or Quantum suff. [L., as much suffices] (Med.), a sufficient quantity; -- abbreviated q. s. in pharmacy.

    Quantum valebat[L., as much at it was worth] (Law), a count in an action to recover of the defendant, for goods sold, as much as they were worth.
    --Blackstone.

Wiktionary
quanta

n. (plural of quantum English)

WordNet
quantum
  1. n. a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantum in quantum theory

  2. (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)

  3. [also: quanta (pl)]

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Quanta

Quanta is the plural of quantum.

Quanta may also refer to:

  • QUANTA (competition), an international science competition
  • QUANTA, a user group for the Sinclair QL computer
  • Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of electronic and computer equipment
  • Quanta cura, a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius IX on 8 December 1864
  • Quanta Display Inc., a Taiwanese TFT-LCD panel manufacturer acquired by AU Optronics
  • Quanta Plus, a web development tool
  • Quanta Services, a US-based specialty contractor for the electric, gas, and telecommunications industries
  • Quanta Technology, a utility infrastructure consulting company
  • Quanta, a 1997 album by Gilberto Gil
  • A line of bowling balls by Brunswick Bowling & Billiards
  • Qantas, an Australian airline
QUANTA (competition)

QUANTA is an international competition for Science, Mathematics, Astronomy and Computer Science. The competition was organized in 1994, as a national event in India. The initial success and popularity of the competition induced QUANTA to be organized as an international competition from the year 1995. QUANTA is the only international competition for science for school children in India, it is organised by CMS Lucknow. Certificates of participation are awarded to each participant. Winners receive separate certificates and trophies. All of these certificates have international accreditation. The first, second and third positions in each event will contribute five, three and two points respectively, to the total tally. The championship trophy will be awarded to the team with the maximum points. The runners-up teams will be awarded the two runners-up trophies. Special prizes will also be awarded for best team turn out, most creative participant and the loony fringe award.

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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.