quantized

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of quantize

comparative more quantized · superlative most quantized

1. natural sciencesExpressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization (i.e. measurement).First known use 20th c.

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   This is very clear for the standing waves on a guitar string: the fundamental has a wavelength of twice the length of the string, and the next longest allowed wavelength is equal to the length of the string. There is no standing wave with a wavelength between these two and so we can say that the allowed wavelengths on a guitar string are quantized.

   2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 96