noun
- plural of quantum; discrete amounts or portions of energy, matter, or other physical quantities
Usage: physics
Examples
- Light exists in discrete quanta called photons.
- Energy is absorbed and emitted in specific quanta.
- The physicist studied how matter behaves at the level of quanta.
- Quantum mechanics deals with the behavior of quanta in atoms.
- Each quantum of electromagnetic radiation carries a fixed amount of energy.
- The experiment measured individual quanta of light hitting the detector.