quanta

American  

[kwon-tuh] / ˈkwɒn tə /

noun

1. the plural of quantum.

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quanta British  

/ ˈkwɒntə /

noun

1. the plural of quantum

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quanta Cultural  

1. sing. quantum In physics, discrete bundles in which radiation and other forms of energy occur. For example, in the Bohr atom, light is sent out in quanta called photons. (See quantum mechanics.)

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Example Sentences

At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

It is especially notable to this process that the emergent composite fermion particle is unique in that the electron captures six quantized magnetic flux quanta, forming the most intricate composite fermion known to date.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2023

General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

Sometimes the light quanta seemed to measure out at three or four meters long; sometimes they appeared to be “just a little bundle of energy,” Beams recalled.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik