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quanta

[kwon-tuh] / ˈkwɒn tə /
NOUN
quantity
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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

This process allows the penetration and pinning of magnetic flux quanta, which in turn creates a magnetic stray field.

From Science Daily

Photons are "light quanta" that constitute the basic building blocks making up the electromagnetic radiation field.

From Science Daily

Previous laboratory experiments have mostly measured these quanta of H2+ indirectly and none of them have used lasers.

From Science Daily

It is especially notable to this process that the emergent composite fermion particle is unique in that the electron captures six quantized magnetic flux quanta, forming the most intricate composite fermion known to date.

From Science Daily