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Definition quantize in American English

quantize verb

verb
1

to restrict to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values

Example

In 1905, Albert Einstein proposes that light, which has wave-like properties, also consists of discrete, quantized bundles of energy called photons.

2

in electronics, to map a large set of input values to a smaller set that can be counted

Example

Using binary encoding, the source is sampled at a particular frequency and further quantized.

Definition quantize in American English