skammtur

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -am̥tʏr

Noun

skammtur m (genitive singular skammts, nominative plural skammtar)

  1. a portion
  2. a ration
  3. a dose, a dosage
  4. (physics) quantum, (smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon)

Synonyms
  • (portion): hluti
  • (dose): lyfjaskammtur
  • (physics: quantum): (uncommon) kvanti

Derived terms
  • af skornum skammti, vera af skornum skammti (to be scarce, to be a shortage of)
Terms derived from “quantum”.
  • skammtaljósnemi (a non-selective quantum detector)
  • segulskammtatala (magnetic quantum number)
  • boðskammtakenning (neural quantum theory)
  • skammtanýtni ljóseindaljóms (photoluminescence quantum yield)
  • meginskammtatala (principal quantum number)
  • skammtalitfræði (quantum chromodynamics)
  • skammtadepill (quantum dot)
  • skammtapunktur (quantum dot)
  • skammtanýtni (of a detector: quantum efficiency)
  • kennilína skammtanýtni (quantum efficiency characteristic)
  • skammtarafsegulfræði (quantum electrodynamics)
  • skammtaraftækni (quantum electronics)
  • skammtasviðsfræði (quantum field theory)
  • þyngdarskammtafræði (quantum gravity)
  • skammtahrif Halls (quantum Hall effect)
  • skammtabiti (qubit)
  • skammtastökk (quantum jump)
  • skammtafræði (quantum mechanics)
  • skammtaaflfræði (quantum mechanics)
  • skammtatala (quantum number)
  • skammtaeðlisfræði (quantum physics)
  • skammtasafnfræði (quantum statistics)
  • skammtakenning (synonym: kvantakenning; quantum theory, quantum mechanics)
  • skammtagryfja (quantum well)
  • skammtabrunnur (quantum well)
  • skammtaþráður (quantum wire)
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