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pilot waves

pilot waves is the plural of pilot wave.

Meaning of pilot wave

Noun

pilot wave (plural pilot waves)

  1. A theoretical matter wave that guides the motion of point particles.
    • To do their job, the pilot waves must travel to the far slit and return in time to influence the electron's path depending on whether that slit is open.1999, Alan A. Grometstein, The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics, →ISBN, page 321
  2. (broadly) A wavefunction on some measurement of information that guides the consciousness or behavior of individual people.
    • Pilot waves and projections from the implicate order to the explicate order of sense-perceptible phenomena are inscrutable to our everyday consiousness, at least directly.1998, Michael Knapik, Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems, →ISBN, page 18

Questions about pilot waves

What is pilot waves the plural of?
Pilot waves is the plural of pilot wave.

Words near pilot waves in the dictionary

  1. pilot vehicle
  2. pilot vehicles
  3. pilot version
  4. pilot versions
  5. pilot wave
  6. pilot waves
  7. pilot whale
  8. pilot whales
  9. pilot wheel
  10. pilot wheels
  11. Pilot Wilderness

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