How to Use quantize in a Sentence

quantize

verb

• Simply put, just like photons are quantized light waves, phonons are quantized sound waves.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
• The current flowing across Josephson junctions is quantized—fixed to discrete values.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
• Magnons are quantized excitations that carry angular momentum in a material’smagnetic structure.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
• Since the electron’s motional states are quantized, the resonator adopts one or two states during the experimental procedure, which is the potential building block of a qubit.
  — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
• It could be quantized and continuous instead, which would align with the fluid explanation, but whether fluid or particle, there are three possibilities for how dark matter behaves.
  — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
• The physicists also showed that the system was quantized, or only gained or lost energy in specific amounts, the committee said—demonstrating another principle macroscopically.
  — Connor Greene, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
• Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Feb. 2026
• Indeed, this superconducting electronic circuit does have quantized energy levels, only emitting or absorbing energy in specific quantities.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
• That’s much easier in times when work on quantizing and foundation models and lower-bit systems has ushered in edge AI – the ability to locate the AI where the data already is, rather than porting it to centralized data centers.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025