indistinguishability

plural indistinguishabilities

1. countableuncountableThe state of being indistinguishable.

   1996 Bose-Einstein Condensation: An Introduction But due to the indistinguishability of the particles in the sample, it describes a decay mechanism that occurs for all N atoms simultaneously.

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   Supposing, for example, that in carrjing our eye along a log of wood, and a piece of stone^ we find the troublof moving the eye (which, though small, is perceptible) to be neither greater nor less in the one case than in the other, these two efforts will e then be indistinguishable to us ; and if we find many cases of such indistinguishability, we shall want a word to express the idea ; we shall call it equality.

   1872, The Quarterly Review, John Murray, pages 99-100

   At times Air Force and CAS efforts blended to the point of indistinguishability.

   1991, Earl H. Tilford Jnr, Setup: what the Air Force did in Vietnam and why

   Synonyms: indistinguishableness · Antonyms: distinguishability