a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter
the sum of human knowledge is now so immense that even a highly educated person can hope to absorb only a tiny quantum of it
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Recent Examples of quantumLibra is hardware that will be provided by QuEra, a startup based in the Boston area that is pursuing neutral atom quantum computing by sharing staff and a long-term intellectual property agreement with research groups at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.—ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026 Physicists were skeptical of Microsoft’s first claims with Majorana 1, so some are once again questioning the company’s target of useful quantum computing by 2029.—Tom Warren, The Verge, 4 June 2026 Masa has reportedly ironed out some of the details of the deal with a notably prominent representative of France: President Emmanuel Macron, who has previously championed the ideas of sovereign AI and AI infrastructure, including chips, compute, and quantum.—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 1 June 2026 This is true for both quantum and classical computers.—Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for quantum
The video was obviously not received well, and officials at Texas Tech were enduring a tremendous amount of backlash from opposing conference leaders from across the Big 12.
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Trey Wallace,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
Tickets for any match in any city will cost you a pretty penny at this point in the tournament, but seats for the final will set you back a staggering amount—likely about five figures for Category 1 tickets, according to the New York Times, and that doesn’t even account for travel or lodging.
Despite being thoroughly outshot, Croatia used a quality-over-quantity approach to hold even early.
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Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 June 2026
Here were decades of human invention and competition, and staggering quantities of money, all distilled down to something smaller than the size of a newborn’s pinkie finger.