QUANTIZE
- to express in terms of quanta, also QUANTISE [v QUANTIZED, QUANTIZING, QUANTIZES]
- to limit the possible values of to a discrete set [v QUANTIZED, QUANTIZES, QUANTIZING]
- to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values
- to change the description of (a physical system) from classical to quantum-mechanical, usually resulting in discrete values for observable quantities, as energy or angular momentum