premeasurement

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noun

measurement before some other operation

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Meanings

nounpremeasurement (plural premeasurements)

plural premeasurements

  1. measurement before some other operation
  2. natural sciencesThe 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.
    1 more example

    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 that has been measured).

    2015, Shan Gao, Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality, →ISBN, page 42

Origin

From pre- + measurement.

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