quantised

Divided into packets

Quantised is the British spelling of quantized, describing something restricted to discrete values rather than continuous ones.

In physics, energy is quantised—it comes in packets (quanta) rather than flowing smoothly.

The term extends to any system where values jump between fixed levels: The signal is quantised into 256 steps.

See also quantized.

sensename

discrete

Individually separate, unconnected

  • levelsHeights or ranked stages
  • stepsSequential actions in process
  • digitisedConverted to digital format

sampled · binned · granular · incremental · discontinuous · stepped · chunked · segmented · partitioned · bracketed

physics

quantum

Smallest discrete unit

electron · orbital · spin · angular momentum · magnetic · eigenvalue · wavefunction · Bohr · spectral · excitation

signal

digital

Of discrete data

encoding · audio · dithering · aliasing · bitrate · codec · lossy · lossless · rounding · truncation

machinelearning

weights

Heavy objects for lifting

pruning · model · deployment · edge computing · TensorFlow · optimisation · calibration · floating-point · fixed-point · latency

Opposites
DISCRETENESS vs CONTINUITY

quantisedcontinuous

Without pause or gap

analog · analogue · stepless · gradual · seamless

physical model

quantisedclassical

Of ancient Greece/Rome

Newtonian · macroscopic

constrained vs. unconstrained magnitude

quantisedcontinuous

Without pause or gap

unconstrained · unbounded · free · unrestricted · classical

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quantisation, quantise

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