QUANTUM PHYSICS

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Meaning:

The branch of physics based on quantum theory

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quantum physics" is a kind of...):

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantum physics"):

quantum mechanics (the branch of quantum physics that accounts for matter at the atomic level; an extension of statistical mechanics based on quantum theory (especially the Pauli exclusion principle))

quantum field theory (the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states)

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