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quantum_mechanics

quantum mechanics

English

Noun

quantum mechanics ‎(uncountable)

(physics) The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms in place of classical Newtonian ones.
(uncountable, by extension) Something overly complicated or detailed.

Translations

branch of physics

Chinese:

Cantonese: 量子力學, 量子力学 ‎(loeng⁶ zi² lik⁶ hok⁶)

Mandarin: 量子力學 (zh), 量子力学 (zh) ‎(liàngzǐ lìxué)

Min Nan: 量子力學, 量子力学 ‎(liōng-chú la̍t-ha̍k)
Czech: kvantová mechanika f
Danish: kvantemekanik c
Dutch: kwantummechanica (nl) f
Esperanto: kvantuma mekaniko
Finnish: kvanttimekaniikka (fi)
French: mécanique quantique (fr) f
German: Quantenmechanik (de) f
Hebrew: מכניקת הקוונטים f
Hungarian: kvantummechanika (hu)
Icelandic: skammtafræði f, skammtaaflfræði f
Italian: meccanica quantistica (it) f
Japanese: 量子力学 (ja) ‎(りょうしりきがく, ryōshi rikigaku)

Korean: 양자역학 (ko) ‎(yangjayeokhak) (量子力學 (ko))
Macedonian: квантна механика f ‎(kvántna mehánika)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kvantemekanikk m

Nynorsk: kvantemekanikk m
Persian: مکانیک کوانتوم ‎(mekânik-e kvântum)
Polish: mechanika kwantowa f
Portuguese: mecânica quântica f
Romanian: mecanică cuantică (ro) f
Russian: ква́нтовая меха́ника f ‎(kvántovaja mexánika)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: квантна механика f

Roman: kvantna mehanika f
Spanish: mecánica cuántica (es) f
Swedish: kvantmekanik c
Tagalog: damuing sigwasan
Turkish: kuantum fiziği, kuantum mekaniği, nicem mekaniği, dalga mekaniği

something overly complicated

Finnish: korkeampi matematiikka

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