Usually means: Assign discrete values to continuous.
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  1. quantize: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. quantize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. quantize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  2. Quantize: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Quantize: Financial dictionary

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  2. quantize: Encyclopedia

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  1. quantize: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quantize)

verb:  (transitive, physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
verb:  (transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
verb:  (transitive, music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To associate a given set of numbers with a set of numeric values in another encoding or numerical system (e.g. in a discrete mathematics).

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