quantise

Other forms of quantise

past tense

quantised·

present participle

quantising·

third person

quantises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quantise

What does quantise mean?

quantise means "approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quantise?

quantise has 2 syllables: quan-tise. The stress falls on "tise".

What is another word for quantise?

Close synonyms include quantize, quantize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quantise a common word?

quantise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.