Ket
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɛt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ket is a noun meaning (Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
Meaning
(Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
More Meanings
- (Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
- (Wearside) A sweet, treat or candy.
- (colloquial) ketamine
- (Scotland) matted wool
- (linear algebra, quantum mechanics) A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate transpose of a bra (a row vector); a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
Example Sentences
A particular ket, say #124;A#92;rangle, might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, #92;langleA#124;, would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.
Word Forms
- kets
Antonyms for ket
Common opposites include bra.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mar, pa, statevector, rebit, eigenstate, quantion.
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