Definitions for quanta

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quanta quan·ta

Spelling: [kwon-tuh]

IPA: /ˈkwɒn tə/

Quanta is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in quanta (aanqtu).

Definitions for quanta

noun

1. plural of quantum.
2. quantity or amount:
3. a particular amount.
4. a share or portion.
5. a large quantity; bulk.
6. Physics. the smallest quantity of radiant energy, equal to Planck's constant times the frequency of the associated radiation. the fundamental unit of a quantized physical magnitude, as angular momentum.

adjective

1. sudden and significant:

Origin of quanta

1610-20; noun use of neuter of Latin quantus how much

Examples for quanta

quanta tells us that as soon as one began to sing, the partisans of the other began to hiss.

As Poincaré now points out, the trouble is that the quanta are not constant.

quanta cujusque animo audacia natura aut moribus inest, tanta in bello patere solet.

Sed confecto proelio, tum vero cerneres, quanta audacia quantaque vis animi fuisset in exercitu Catilinae.

quanta calcina si fatta di statue e d'altri ornamenti antichi!

From this point of view the quanta appear as atoms of energy.

Neque enim tanta πολυθεοτης Gentium, quanta fuit Deorum πολυωνυμια.

These are the axioms which properly relate only to quantities (quanta) as such.

In that case the psychons given off by your mind were converted into quanta of visible light, which could be seen.

Hunc igitur laborem nostrum ut tam Gratis animis accipiatis, quanta sedulitate a nobis est obitus, ex aequo omnes rogatos volo.