Definitions from Wiktionary (quantum)

▸ noun:  (now chiefly South Asia or law) The total amount of something; quantity.
▸ noun:  (law) The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
▸ noun:  (law) The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
▸ noun:  The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
▸ noun:  (physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
▸ noun:  (computing) The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
▸ adjective:  Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Of a change, significant.
▸ adjective:  (physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.
▸ adjective:  (computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer.
▸ noun:  (computing, uncountable) Short for quantum computing. [(computing) The use of quantum mechanical phenomena to transcend classical time complexity limitations in computing.]
▸ Also see quantum

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