Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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quantum

UK /ˈkwɒntəm/ · US /ˈkwɑntəm/ noun, adjective

Forms quantums quanta

  1. noun (now chiefly South Asia or law) The total amount of something; quantity.
  2. noun (law) The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
  3. noun (law) The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
  4. noun The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
  5. noun (physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
  6. noun (computing) The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
  7. noun (medicine) The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
  8. noun (economics) Amount of goods produced or demanded.
  9. adjective Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.
  10. adjective (informal) Of a change, significant.
  11. adjective (physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.
  12. adjective (computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer.

Antonyms

classical

Etymology

From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Quantity; amount. "Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges." Burke.
  2. noun A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary. W. K. Clifford. Quantum meruit ( Etym: [L., as much as he merited] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve.

Etymology [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See Quantity,]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “quantum”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “quantum” (best matches first).