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Hamiltonian¹

  • /ˌhæmɪlˈtəʊ.ni.ən/ UK
  • /ˌhæmɪlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/ US

Rhymes with -əʊniən

adjective

  1. not comparable Of, attributed to or inspired by the Irish mathematician, astronomer and physicist William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865).
  2. not comparable, of a cycle/path That visits each vertex exactly once.
  3. not comparable, of a graph Containing a Hamiltonian cycle. Using the correction of a vector field to characterize isochronicity and explicit computations of this quantity for polynomial vector fields, wa are able to describe a very large class of nonisochronous Hamiltonian system of even degree of degree arbitrary large.
  4. US, historical, not comparable, of certain fiscal policies Advocated by American politician Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804).
  5. not comparable Relating to James Hamilton (1769–1831), or his method of teaching languages without grammar, by a literal interlinear word-for-word translation.
  6. not comparable Of, relating to, or in the literary style of Edmond Hamilton (1904–1977), American science fiction writer.
  7. not comparable Relating to Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician.

noun Hamiltonians

  1. A function (of time), denoted H, that corresponds to the total energy of the system. We contrast this with the case of sampling from the output of a quantum computer running the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm (QADI) with the restriction that the Hamiltonian that governs the evolution is gapped and stoquastic.
  2. The observable, denoted H, that corresponds to the total energy of the system.
  3. US, historical A member of the faction of the US government in the George Washington administration led by Alexander Hamilton.

Hamiltonian²

  • /ˌhæmɪlˈtəʊ.ni.ən/ UK
  • /ˌhæmɪlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/ US

Rhymes with -əʊniən

adjective more Hamiltonian · most Hamiltonian

  1. Of or relating to any city named Hamilton.

noun Hamiltonians

  1. A native or inhabitant of any city named Hamilton.

hamiltonian³

adjective

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Hamiltonian

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noun (quantum mechanics)

Portuguêshamiltoniano
DeutschHamiltonoperator
Русскийгамильтониа́н gamilʹtonián

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@misc{hamiltonian_2026,
  title = {hamiltonian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hamiltonian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}