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premeasurements

premeasurements is the plural of premeasurement.

Meaning of premeasurement

Noun

premeasurement (plural premeasurements)

  1. measurement before some other operation
  2. The preparation of a system for obtaining a desired result, typically the confinement of an object system in a small but macroscopic region of space-time.
    • We would like now to show that the counterpart of the conditional probability ℘(jǀk) in quantum mechanics is indeed the probability of a final detection event, which, given a certain experimental context (a premeasurement), allows us to finally ascribe a property to the object system (the system...2015, Shan Gao, Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality, →ISBN, page 42

Questions about premeasurements

What is premeasurements the plural of?
Premeasurements is the plural of premeasurement.

Words near premeasurements in the dictionary

  1. premazepam
  2. premeal
  3. premeasure
  4. premeasured
  5. premeasurement
  6. premeasurements
  7. premeasures
  8. premeasuring
  9. premechanical
  10. premechanization
  11. premechanized

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