quantization

English

Alternative forms

• quantisation

Etymology

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English quantize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English quantization

From quantize + -ation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kwŏntĭzāshən

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: quan‧ti‧za‧tion

Noun

quantization (countable and uncountable, plural quantizations)

1. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values
2. (countable, physics) A procedure for constructing a quantum field theory starting from a classical field theory; to represent by quanta

Derived terms

• dequantization
• prequantization
• requantization
• space quantization

Translations

process of approximating a continuous signal

• Czech: kvantování n, kvantizace f
• Finnish: kvantisointi
• French: quantification (fr) f
• Georgian: კვანტიზაცია (ḳvanṭizacia), დისკრეტიზაცია (disḳreṭizacia)
• German: Quantisierung (de) f, Quantelung (de) f
• Greek: κβαντισμός (el) m (kvantismós)
• Korean: 양자화(量子化) (yangjahwa)
• Portuguese: quantização f
• Russian: квантование (ru) n (kvantovanije), дискретизация (ru) f (diskretizacija)
• Spanish: cuantificación f

in physics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 量子化 (zh) (liàngzǐhuà)

• Czech: kvantování n
• Finnish: kvantittaminen
• French: quantification (fr) f
• German: Quantisierung (de) f, Quantelung (de) f
• Greek: κβάντωση (el) f (kvántosi)
• Hindi: क्वांटमीकरण (kvāṇṭmīkraṇ)
• Icelandic: skömmtun f
• Kazakh: кванттау (kvanttaw)
• Limburgish: kwantizering (li) f
• Portuguese: quantização f
• Spanish: cuantificación f, (neologism) cuantización (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: quántizació
• Dutch: kwantisatie (nl)
• Estonian: kvantimine
• French: quantisation (fr)
• Hungarian: kvantálás (hu)
• Italian: quantizzazione (it) f (all)
• Japanese: 量子 (ja) (ryōshi)
• Latin: quantizatio m
• Russian: квантование (ru) (kvantovanije)
• Swedish: kvantisering c