quanta

Example Sentences

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The challenge with Josephson junctions is that their behavior unfolds at the level of individual quanta.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

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

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

“He responded, rather vaguely, with some small notions about highspeed rotating mirrors, chopping the tails off quanta and other single-shot ideas,” Tuve would recall.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik