quantum

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Definition

The smallest indivisible unit of a given quantity, or in buzzword terms, whatever makes your tech startup sound 500% more impressive to investors. In physics, it's the fundamental discrete quantity of any physical property; in business, it's whatever you stick in front of 'computing' or 'leap' to sound revolutionary. Real quantum mechanics is complicated; fake quantum marketing is everywhere.

Example Usage

The startup promised their 'quantum blockchain AI' would revolutionize everything, but their actual product was just a spreadsheet with extra steps.

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