quantise

A verb used to express the process of limiting or restricting a variable or signal to a set of discrete values, often in the context of digital signal processing or physics.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé pour décrire le processus de limitation ou de conversion d'une variable ou d'un signal en un ensemble de valeurs discrètes, souvent dans le contexte du traitement numérique du signal ou de la physique.

1. Signal processing C1 formal technical

   To approximate a continuously varying signal by restricting its amplitude to a set of discrete values.

   • The analog signal was quantised into 256 discrete levels.
   • In digital audio, the waveform is quantised to produce a digital representation.
   • The engineer quantised the data to reduce noise.

   🇫🇷Quantification (traitement du signal)

   Synonymes: quantize

2. Quantum physics C2 formal scientific

   To apply quantum theory to a physical system, restricting certain variables to discrete values that are integral multiples of a fundamental unit.

   • Physicists quantise the energy levels of an electron in an atom.
   • The field was quantised to explain particle interactions.
   • In quantum mechanics, angular momentum is quantised.

   🇫🇷Quantifier (en physique quantique)

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• quantising present participle
• quantizing present participle
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• quantizes third person singular