In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ket (plural kets)
(physics) A vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
A particular ket, say , might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, , would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.
ket (countable and uncountable, plural kets)
(Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
(Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
(Geordie) A sweet, treat or candy.
Abbreviation.
ket (uncountable)
(colloquial) ketamine
ket (uncountable)
(Scotland) matted wool
Ket (plural Kets or Ket)
A member of a people of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Central Siberia, Russia.
Ket
The Yeniseian language of this people.
Source: Wiktionary
Ket, n. Etym: [Icel. kjöt flesh; akin to Sw. kött, Dan. kjöd.]
Definition: Carrion; any filth. [Prob. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.