quantize

Other forms of quantize

past tense

quantized·

present participle

quantizing·

third person

quantizes·

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 quantize

What does quantize mean?

quantize 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 quantize?

quantize has 2 syllables: quan-tize. The stress falls on "tize".

What is another word for quantize?

Close synonyms include quantise, quantise. 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 quantize a common word?

quantize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.