Noun: ket
- [informal] A general anaesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or paediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP
"The veterinarian administered ket to sedate the injured horse";
- ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride, Ketalar
- (quantum mechanics) a vector in a complex Hilbert space, represented by the right half of Dirac's bra-ket notation |⟩
"The ket |ψ⟩ represents the state of the quantum system"
- [archaic, dialect] Carrion; any filth
Derived forms: kets
Type of: club drug, general anaesthetic [Brit, Cdn], general anesthetic [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Ket