quanta
Example Sentences
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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
In order to see and study single quanta of sound, the number of phonons must be minimized.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Quantum theory typically deals with the universe in tiny chunks, or quanta, while general relativity takes the cosmos to be continuous even at the smallest scales.
From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2023
General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.
From New York Times • May 8, 2023
Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, showed the physics world that nature worked in quanta rather than in smooth increments.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
