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quantum number

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quantum number [′kwän·təm ‚nəm·bər]
(quantum mechanics)
One of the quantities, usually discrete with integer or half-integer values, needed to characterize a quantum state of a physical system; they are usually eigenvalues of quantum-mechanical operators or integers sequentially assigned to these eigenvalues.
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