Usually means: Assign discrete values to continuous.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word quantize:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. quantize: Merriam-Webster
  2. quantize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quantize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quantize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quantize: Vocabulary.com
  6. quantize: Wordnik
  7. quantize: Wiktionary
  8. quantize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. quantize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. quantize: Dictionary.com
  11. quantize: Rhymezone
  12. quantize: FreeDictionary.org
  13. quantize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. quantize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Quantize: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Quantize: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. quantize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quantize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quantize: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See quantization as well.)

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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