quanta
Example Sentences
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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
It is especially notable to this process that the emergent composite fermion particle is unique in that the electron captures six quantized magnetic flux quanta, forming the most intricate composite fermion known to date.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024
The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.
From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2023
Quantum mechanics describes how, in the subatomic realm, everything is broken up in discrete chunks, or quanta, such as the individual particles of light called photons.
From New York Times • May 8, 2023
In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time, such as a week.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
