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quantized

quantized

English

Verb

quantized

  1. simple past tense and past participle of quantize

Adjective

quantized (comparative more quantized, superlative most quantized)

  1. (physics) Expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization. [from 20th c.]
    • 2011, Brian Cox & 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.