quantum

CEFRB2

/ˈkwɒntəm/

noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.

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Developing for quantum has never been more accessible.
A certain quantum of power must always exist in the community, in some hands, and under some appellation.
The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.

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The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 416
A certain quantum of power must always exist in the community, in some hands, and under some appellation.
1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 142
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
2012 January 26, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2017, page 86
Each man has only a quantum of compassion, he argued, and mine is used up for the day.
1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 96
The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus [translating Reizquantum] proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness.
1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 34

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From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).