Premeasurement
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 that has been measured)."
Example
More examples"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)."
Etymology
From pre- + measurement.
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