96:Įach 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 2010, p.The amount or quantity observably present, or available.The Congress's core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch. Otherwise I will have given the lie to my maxim that whether you work eight or twenty hours, the quantum of work that gets done on a normal day is the same. 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p.142:Ī 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 2009, p.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 1973, p.( now chiefly South Asia or law ) The total amount of something quantity.Quantum ( countable and uncountable, plural quantums or quanta) Note: in General American, the enunciated form is more common when the word is used on its own but in connected speech, when it is used as a modifier (as in quantum mechanics), the flapped form is more common. ( US, Canada ) IPA (key): ( enunciated ), ( common flapped realization ).
( General American ) IPA (key): /ˈkwɑntəm/.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈkwɒntəm/.Definitions and meaning of quantum quantum Etymologyįrom Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus ( “ how much ” ).
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