quantum – English noun declension

English noun forms of quantum

Noun: quantum
Singularquantum
Pluralquantums; quanta

Sample Sentences

  • The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity. [1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 416:]
  • A certain quantum of power must always exist in the community, in some hands, and under some appellation. [1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 142:]
  • Otherwise I will have given the lie to my maxim that whether you work eight or twenty hours, the quantum of work that gets done on a normal day is the same. [1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 375:]
  • The Congress's core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch. [2008 May 21, The Times of India:]
  • Each man has only a quantum of compassion, he argued, and mine is used up for the day. [1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 96:]
  • The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus [translating Reizquantum] proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness. [1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 34:]
  • The quantum of light energy was later called a photon. [2002, David C Cassidy et al., Understanding Physics, Birkhauser, page 602:]
  • Developing for quantum has never been more accessible.
  • Defined parts of a manifoldness are called Quanta [1882, William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematical Papers:]

Etymology

From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”). See: Latin Nouns 'quantus'.

Verbs referencing "quantum"

Finnish Nouns kvantti, Greek Nouns κβάντο.