Coarse-graining

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  1. 1
    The rescaling of a phenomenon into units or cells of size close to the uncertainty of measurement. countable, uncountable

    "As human observers we focus almost entirely on coarse-grainings of this quasiclassical realm. However, quantum theory does not distinguish the classical realm from other decoherent sets..."

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"As human observers we focus almost entirely on coarse-grainings of this quasiclassical realm. However, quantum theory does not distinguish the classical realm from other decoherent sets..."

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