Quantize

Quick meaning: Quantize is a verb meaning (transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values.

Meaning

(transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
2. (transitive, mathematics) To associate a given set of numbers with a set of numeric values in another encoding or numerical system (e.g. in a discrete mathematics).
3. (transitive, music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale

Word Forms

• quantizes
• quantizing
• quantized
• quantise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quantise, dequantize, classicalize, bosonize, fermionize, renormalize.

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