quantum chromodynamics : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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English Dictionary: quantum chromodynamics	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quaintness n the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing" strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
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quandong n Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed Synonym(s): quandong, quandang, quandong tree, Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree Synonym(s): quandong, blue fig Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit Synonym(s): quandong, quandong tree, Brisbane quandong, silver quandong tree, blue fig, Elaeocarpus grandis red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam Synonym(s): quandong, quandang, quantong, native peach
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quandong nut n edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit
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quandong tree n Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed Synonym(s): quandong, quandang, quandong tree, Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit Synonym(s): quandong, quandong tree, Brisbane quandong, silver quandong tree, blue fig, Elaeocarpus grandis
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quantong n red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam [syn: quandong, quandang, quantong, native peach]
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quantum n a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
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quantum chromodynamics n a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together Synonym(s): quantum chromodynamics, QCD
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quantum electrodynamics n a relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons Synonym(s): quantum electrodynamics, QED
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quantum field theory n the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states
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quantum jump n (physics) an abrupt transition of an electron or atom or molecule from one quantum state to another with the emission or absorption of a quantum a sudden large increase or advance; "this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer" Synonym(s): quantum leap, quantum jump
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quantum leap n a sudden large increase or advance; "this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer" Synonym(s): quantum leap, quantum jump
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quantum mechanics n the branch of quantum physics that accounts for matter at the atomic level; an extension of statistical mechanics based on quantum theory (especially the Pauli exclusion principle)
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quantum physics n the branch of physics based on quantum theory
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quantum theory n (physics) a physical theory that certain properties occur only in discrete amounts (quanta)
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino n United States filmmaker (born in 1963) [syn: Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Tarantino]
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Quentin Tarantino n United States filmmaker (born in 1963) [syn: Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Tarantino]
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quinidine n cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias Synonym(s): quinidine, Quinidex, Quinora
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Quintana Roo n a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula
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quondam adj belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" Synonym(s): erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quaintness \Quaint"ness\, n. The quality of being quaint. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quandong \Quan"dong\, n. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree ({Fusanus acuminatus}) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also {quandang}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quandong \Quan"dong\, n. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree ({Fusanus acuminatus}) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also {quandang}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quantum \Quan"tum\, n.; pl. {Quanta}. [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See {Quantity},] 1. Quantity; amount. [bd]Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges.[b8] --Burke. 2. (Math.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary. --W. K. Clifford. {[d8]Quantum meruit}[L., as much as he merited] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve. {[d8]Quantum sufficit}, [or] {Quantum suff.}
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quantum \Quan"tum\, n.; pl. {Quanta}. [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See {Quantity},] 1. Quantity; amount. [bd]Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges.[b8] --Burke. 2. (Math.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary. --W. K. Clifford. {[d8]Quantum meruit}[L., as much as he merited] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve. {[d8]Quantum sufficit}, [or] {Quantum suff.}
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queendom \Queen"dom\, n. The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. --Mrs. Browning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quindem \Quin"dem\, n. A fifteenth part. [Obs.]
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Quinidine \Quin"i*dine\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge. [Written also {chinidine}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quinoidine \Qui*noid"ine\, n. [Quinine + -oid.] (Med. (Chem.) A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids. [Written also {chinoidine}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintain \Quin"tain\, n. [F. quintaine, LL. quintana; cf. W. chwintan a kind of hymeneal game.] An object to be tilted at; -- called also {quintel}. [Written also {quintin}.] Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while riding under, and get away without being hit by the sand bag. [bd]But a quintain, a mere lifeless block.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintan \Quin"tan\, a. [L. quintanus, fr. quintus fifth, quinque five. See {Five}.] Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintain \Quin"tain\, n. [F. quintaine, LL. quintana; cf. W. chwintan a kind of hymeneal game.] An object to be tilted at; -- called also {quintel}. [Written also {quintin}.] Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while riding under, and get away without being hit by the sand bag. [bd]But a quintain, a mere lifeless block.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintin \Quin"tin\, n. See {Quintain}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintain \Quin"tain\, n. [F. quintaine, LL. quintana; cf. W. chwintan a kind of hymeneal game.] An object to be tilted at; -- called also {quintel}. [Written also {quintin}.] Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while riding under, and get away without being hit by the sand bag. [bd]But a quintain, a mere lifeless block.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintin \Quin"tin\, n. See {Quintain}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintine \Quin"tine\, n. [L. quintus the fifth: cf. F. quintine.] (Bot.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. {Quartine}, and {Tercine}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quondam \Quon"dam\, a. [L., formerly.] Having been formerly; former; sometime. [bd]This is the quondam king.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quondam \Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] [bd]Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office.[b8] --Latimer.
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
quantum bogodynamics /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n. A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and {suit}s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), and bogosity potential fields. Bogon absorption, of course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet understood and remain to be elucidated. Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See {bogon}, {computron}, {suit}, {psyton}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum {time slice}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum bogodynamics /kwon'tm boh"goh-di:-nam"iks/ A theory that characterises the universe in terms of {bogon} sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and {suit}s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), and bogosity potential fields. Bogon absorption causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise mechanics of bogon-{computron} interaction are not yet understood. Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-02)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum cell (Or "quantum dot cell") A structure comprising four {quantum dots} arranged in a square, with two diagonally opposed dots containing electron charges. One diagonal containing charges is arbitrarily defined as representing a value of '1', the other as '0'. In a five-dot cell, the fifth, central dot contains no charge. See also: {quantum cell wire}, {quantum-dot cellular} automata. {(http://www.mitre.org/research/nanotech/quantum_dot_cell.html)}. ["Quantum Dot Heterostructures", D. Bimberg, et al, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Dec 1998]. [Implementations?] (2001-07-17)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum cell wire (Or "quantum wire", "binary wire") {Quantum cells} arranged in a line to carry signals. Adjacent cells with the same orientation are at a low energy state and a change of orientation at one end of a quantum wire propagates along the wire, transmitting a signal. However, unlike conventional wire, since only the orientation of charge pairs changes, no current flows. Circuits created using quantum cell wires are referred to as Quantum-dot Wireless Digital Circuits, see {quantum dot}, {Quantum-dot Cellular Automata}. {(http://www.mitre.org/research/nanotech/quantum_dot_cell.html)}. ["Quantum Dot Heterostructures", D. Bimberg, et al, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Dec 1998] (2001-07-17)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum computer A type of computer which uses the ability of quantum systems, such as a collection of atoms, to be in many different states at once. In theory, such superpositions allow the computer to perform many different computations simultaneously. This capability is combined with interference among the states to produce answers to some problems, such as factoring integers, much more rapidly than is possible with conventional computers. In practice, such machines have not yet been built due to their extreme sensitivity to noise. {Oxford University (http://eve.physics.ox.ac.uk/QChome.html)}, {Stanford University (http://feynman.stanford.edu/qcomp/)}. A {quantum search algorithm (ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/dynamics/quantum.html)} for {constraint satisfaction} problems exhibits the phase transition for {NP-complete} problems. (1997-02-11)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum computing {quantum computer}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quantum dot (Or "single-electron transistor") A location capable of containing a single electrical charge; i.e., a single electron of {Coulomb} charge. Physically, quantum dots are nanometer-size {semiconductor} structures in which the presence or absence of a quantum electron can be used to store information. See also: {quantum cell}, {quantum cell wire}, {quantum-dot cellular automata}. {(http://www-mtl.mit.edu/MTL/bulletin/v6n2/Kumar.html)}. ["Quantum Dot Heterostructures", D. Bimberg, et al, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Dec 1998]. (2001-07-17)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) Quantum logic circuits created by orientating pairs of {quantum cells} so that their relative positions determine their affect on each other. This is functionally analogous but structurally different from how individual {gates} in {integrated circuits} are combined to create logical and memory circuitry. The advantages of quantum-dot cellular automata over conventional circuitry are extremely small size/high density, low power requirements, and potentially high processing speeds. Disadvantages (in 2000) are difficulty of fabrication and low yield. See also: {quantum cell wire}. {Home (http://www.nd.edu/~qcahome/)}. {(http://www.mitre.org/research/nanotech/quantum_dot_cell.html)}. ["Quantum Dot Heterostructures", D. Bimberg, et al, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Dec 1998]. (2001-07-17)