different between quanta vs photon

English

Noun

quanta

1. plural of quantum

Antonyms

• qualia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?kwan.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kwan.ta/

Adjective

quanta

1. feminine singular of quant

French

Noun

quanta m

1. plural of quantum

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian quanto, Spanish cuánto, ultimately from Latin quantus. In length also from English quantity, French quantité, German Quantität.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwan.ta/

Pronoun

quanta

1. (interrogative pronoun) how much, how many

Derived terms

• quantafoye (“how many times”)
• quante (“how much, how many”)
• quanto (“quantity, amount”)
• quantope (“by how much”)
• quanteso (“quantity”)
  • quantesala (“quantitative”)
• quantima (“based on a number”)

See also

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quala (“what kind of”)
  • quale (“how”)

Italian

Adjective

quanta

1. feminine singular of quanto

Latin

Adjective

quanta

1. nominative feminine singular of quantus
2. nominative neuter plural of quantus
3. accusative neuter plural of quantus
4. vocative feminine singular of quantus
5. nominative neuter plural of quantus

Adjective

quant?

1. ablative feminine singular of quantus

Portuguese

Pronoun

quanta

1. feminine singular of quanto

Noun

quanta m

1. plural of quantum

English

Etymology

From photo- +? -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??t?n/

Noun

photon (plural photons)

1. (physics) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• phonon
• plasmon

Anagrams

• notoph

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.t??/

Noun

photon m (plural photons)

1. (physics) photon

Further reading

• “photon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).