quantizedadj.

1920 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 98 2 The quantised eccentricity ε and inclination i of the electronic orbits.

1923 H. L. Brose tr. A. J. W. Sommerfeld Atomic Struct. & Spectral Lines iv. 212 Both [conditions] together demand that the electron move only in certain ‘quantised’ circles [Ger. nur auf gewissen ‘gequantelten’ Kreisen].

1937 G. Gamow Struct. Atomic Nuclei iv. 67 The atomic nucleus, being a quantized system, is in general capable of existence in any one of a number of states of different energy.

1953 Sociometry 16 272 The relations between the quantized variables themselves were calculated by means of a corrected correlation ratio.

1966 C. Kittel Introd. Solid State Physics (ed. 3) v. 134 The lattice contribution to the heat capacity of solids..approaches zero as the temperature approaches zero; this can be explained only if the lattice vibrations are quantized.

1973 Physics Bull. Dec. 715/3 The flux which is trapped in a superconducting loop is quantized in units of h/2e.

1997 D. Park Fire within Eye x. 334 Light..is a sensory experience, it is a medium of perception, and physicists call it a quantized electromagnetic field.

2005 C. Stross Accelerando vii. 327 They want money. Money in Economy 2.0 is quantized originality—that which allows one sentient entity to outmaneuver another.