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superselected

superselected adjective: chosen through superselection.

Adjective

superselected (not comparable)

  1. Chosen through superselection.
    • Indeed, Landsman rejects the modal semantics in favor of the rule that all and only those observables whose operators are self-adjoint and are superselected in the sense that they belong to the center of the von Neumann algebra of observables have definite values.2008 September 27, John Earman, “Superselection Rules for Philosophers”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Origin of superselected

From super- + selected.

Questions about superselected

What does superselected mean?
Superselected means chosen through superselection.
What part of speech is superselected?
Superselected is an adjective.

Words near superselected in the dictionary

  1. superseed
  2. superseeded
  3. superseiner
  4. superseiners
  5. superselect
  6. superselected
  7. superselection
  8. superselections
  9. superselective
  10. superselectively
  11. superself

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