skammtur
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -am̥tʏr
Noun
skammtur m (genitive singular skammts, nominative plural skammtar)
- portion
- Synonym: hluti
- ration
- dose, dosage
- Synonym: lyfjaskammtur
- (physics) quantum (smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon)
- Synonym: (uncommon) kvanti
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | skammtur | skammturinn | skammtar | skammtarnir |
| accusative | skammt | skammtinn | skammta | skammtana |
| dative | skammti | skammtinum | skömmtum | skömmtunum |
| genitive | skammts | skammtsins | skammta | skammtanna |
Derived terms
- af skornum skammti, vera af skornum skammti (“to be scarce, to be a shortage of”)
Terms derived from “quantum”.
- boðskammtakenning (“neural quantum theory”)
- kennilína skammtanýtni (“quantum efficiency characteristic”)
- meginskammtatala (“principal quantum number”)
- segulskammtatala (“magnetic quantum number”)
- skammtaaflfræði (“quantum mechanics”)
- skammtabiti (“qubit”)
- skammtabrunnur (“quantum well”)
- skammtadepill (“quantum dot”)
- skammtaeðlisfræði (“quantum physics”)
- skammtafræði (“quantum mechanics”)
- skammtagryfja (“quantum well”)
- skammtahrif Halls (“quantum Hall effect”)
- skammtakenning, kvantakenning (“quantum theory, quantum mechanics”)
- skammtalitfræði (“quantum chromodynamics”)
- skammtaljósnemi (“a non-selective quantum detector”)
- skammtanýtni (“quantum efficiency (of a detector)”)
- skammtanýtni ljóseindaljóms (“photoluminescence quantum yield”)
- skammtapunktur (“quantum dot”)
- skammtarafsegulfræði (“quantum electrodynamics”)
- skammtaraftækni (“quantum electronics”)
- skammtasafnfræði (“quantum statistics”)
- skammtastökk (“quantum jump”)
- skammtasviðsfræði (“quantum field theory”)
- skammtatala (“quantum number”)
- skammtaþráður (“quantum wire”)
- þyngdarskammtafræði (“quantum gravity”)