ket

Meanings

1. A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate transpose of a bra (a row vector); a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.

1. Carrion; any filth.
2. Sweetmeats.
3. A sweet, treat or candy.

1. ketamine

1. matted wool

1. A member of a people of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Central Siberia, Russia.

1. A river in Russia, a tributary of the Ob.
2. The Yeniseian language of the Ket people.

1. A native or inhabitant of Brussels.

1. The station code of Kennedy Town in Hong Kong.

Etymology

From bra-ket notation invented by Paul Dirac, from bracket.