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English
Etymology
From quantize + -ed.
Pronunciation
Verb
quantized
- simple past and past participle of quantize
Adjective
quantized (comparative more quantized, superlative most quantized)
- (physics) Expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization.
2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 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.
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