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According to Greeson, Time Warner's TV Everywhere initiative is the first legitimate instance of what he calls a quantum video service, one which in theory delivers on the "any content, any screen, any location, at anytime" promise on which place -, time -, and device-shifting notions are based.

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  1. noun A quantity or amount.
  2. noun A specified portion.
  3. noun Something that can be counted or measured.
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  • The micro-world of the quantum is understood. —  Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century?
  • Known informally as "consciousness-related" tech, the lamp comes stocked with what's known as a quantum measurement device, or REG.
  • The worlds of relativity and the quantum are beyond the rough-and-ready ideas we chimpanzees have built into us, from our distant ancestors' experience at throwing stones and poking sticks on African plains. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • By definition, a quantum is as small as that particular package can be. —  Angelmass
  • The phrase that popped into my mind, once my middle ears settled down, was one I'd heard in my graduate seminar-- quantum nonlocality. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
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  1. Latin, from neuter of quantus, how great; see quantity.

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  1. Latin, neuter sing, of quantus, how much, how mayn: see quantity.
 

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