to quantize
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9.8
- verb
- /ˈkwɒn.taɪz/
- Specialized
:
cuantizar
- So essentially I'm going to quantize this drum part here.
- quantized coefficients
You just essentially quantize this space into a special word that actually maps to these little sequence of pixels.
- You just essentially quantize this space into a special word that actually maps to these little sequence of pixels.
- I mean, we get to decide how to how much to quantize it, but it is quantized.
- You're saying because because it forces people to basically compart to quantize their ideas.
Examples
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All recordings were quantized at 16 bits and down-sampled to 11.025 kHz prior to signal processing and acoustic analysis.
Academic text (2012) -
The symbols are encoded as different quantized amplitudes of an electromagnetic carrier.
Academic text (1999) -
You can, however, quantize plain old electromagnetism without problems.
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We then quantize the number of photons that we get and transmit and that's our entire encoder.
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We use a quantized color histogram as our feature representation, where each channel in the CIE LAB space is quantized into four bins, as Zhang et al. (2014a).
Academic text (2018) -
Imposing ultrafine lateral confinement at length scales of about 100 nm on an originally two-dimensional system will also quantize the electron motion in the lateral directions.
Academic text (1994) -
The music producer decided to quantize the tracks to ensure a steady rhythm throughout the song.
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After recording the audio, the engineer had to quantize the notes to correct the timing.
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To improve the clarity of the sound, the technician chose to quantize the signal at regular intervals.
How Discrete
Surface Forms
Morphology
quantize = quantum (semi-transparent) = quant + ize
Formed with the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' from the 'quant-' stem, but the precise technical sense (discrete/quantum behavior or signal discretization) is specialized and may not be obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Quantize comes from the Latin root quantum meaning 'how much' and is related to the familiar word quantity. It means to change a smooth value into a few fixed 'amounts' or steps, so in audio or images many small differences are 'rounded' to set values.