Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics Not
quantum .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nonquantum.
Examples
-
Spin is the canonical quantum observable having no classical counterpart, reputed to be impossible to grasp in a nonquantum way.
Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006
-
Rather the difficulty is that there is no ordinary (nonquantum) quantity which, like the spin observable, is a 3-vector and which also is such that its components in all possible directions belong to the same discrete set.
Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006
-
It's really a gauge, not a timepiece-what self-respecting nonquantum chronometer rides back and forth over the same patch of time for 50 years, anyway?
Wired Top Stories Scott Brown 2010
-
Conventional (nonquantum) communication channels relay information, gleaned from the first ion's measurement, as to which of those two states is correct, and a pulse of microwave energy sets the second ion into the state representing the information encoded on the first.
Signs of the Times 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.