quantum jump
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While a lot has to go right for a team that finished 27-55 to make a quantum jump, the Bulls showed flashes when they won 10 of 12 games in December.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2018
According to the physicists, each quantum jump would liberate or absorb energy, and only on average would energy be conserved.
From Scientific American • Aug. 5, 2014
A third being planned would represent a quantum jump – a 4,800MW, $12bn giant that would move an entire region off carbon-based electricity.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2013
Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has also succeeded in observing the fabled quantum jump of a single trapped atom as it absorbed energy and then emitted it in the form of light.
From Time Magazine Archive
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