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What does quantize mean?

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Verb
  1. (physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
  2. (transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
  3. (music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale
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This seismic work led to an effort to quantize earthquake hazards.
In the first, investigation starts with a classical chaotic system and seeks to quantize it to study its quantum behavior.
In order to explain a quantized absorption and emission of radiation by matter, it seemed sufficient to quantize the possible energy states in matter.
You can determine whether a minimal quantize is applied automatically to the loaded document, whether no quantize at all is applied, or whether you want to configure it manually.
Only now are we trying to quantize the theory to make it compatible with the other forces.
When one attempts to quantize gravity, one is subjecting some of the properties of spacetime to quantum fluctuations.

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