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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of theoretical physics that mathematically represents subatomic particles as waves in fields, as in the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
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- noun physics, mathematics The
mathematical basis forquantum mechanics in whichlight andsubatomic particles have the characteristics of bothwaves andparticles .
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- noun the modern form of quantum theory; an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation; atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves
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