quantum mechanics
noun1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms in place of classical Newtonian ones.
2
Broadly Something overly complicated or detailed.
- Derived terms
- nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, on-relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum mechanical, relativistic quantum mechanics
- Related terms
- quantum physics, quantum theory, uncertainty principle, wavefunction, wave-particle duality