quantize

English

Alternative forms

• quantise

Verb

quantize(third-person singular simple presentquantizes,present participlequantizing,simple past and past participlequantized)

1. (transitive,physics)Tolimitthenumberofpossiblevaluesof aquantity,orstatesof asystem,by applying therulesofquantum mechanics
2. (transitive,telecommunications)Toapproximateacontinuouslyvaryingsignalby one whoseamplitudecan only have asetofdiscretevalues
3. (transitive,music)To shift eachbeatin arhythmicpatternto the nearest beat of a givenresolution(eighth note,sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust thefrequencyorpitchof a note to the nearest perfecttonein a givenmusicalscale
4. (transitive,mathematics)Toassociatea givensetof numbers with a set ofnumericvalues in another encoding or numerical system (e.g. in adiscretemathematics).

Derived terms

• quantization

Descendants

• →Spanish:cuantizar

Translations

to limit the number of possible values

• Bulgarian:квантувам(kvantuvam)
• Finnish:kvantittaa
• German:quantisieren(de)
• Hebrew:מידודm(mìdud)
• Japanese:Lượng tử hóaする(ryōshika-suru)
• Korean:양자화하다(yangjahwahada)
• Portuguese:quantizar
• Romanian:cuantifica(ro)
• Spanish:cuantizar(es)

to approximate a continuously varying signal

• Finnish:kvantittaa
• Japanese:Lượng tử hóaする(ryōshika-suru)

Portuguese

Verb

quantize

1. inflection ofquantizar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative