Quasimeasure
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A nonnegative increasing semiadditive set function defined on a ring of sets that is continuous above the origin and takes its values in the extended domain of real numbers.
"Motivated by the Arzel\`a-Ascoli theorem for Cᵇ(X,E), where X is an^([sic]) Euclidean space and E an arbitrary Banach space, we construct a quasimeasure for this space and study its properties."
- 2 An imprecise means of measuring something.
"Performative regimes (see Power, 1997, 2004; Strathern, 2000) in many countries now judge the worth of an academic by the number of their publications, or through some quasimeasure of quality such as download data or citations for the paper."
Example
More examples"Motivated by the Arzel\`a-Ascoli theorem for Cᵇ(X,E), where X is an^([sic]) Euclidean space and E an arbitrary Banach space, we construct a quasimeasure for this space and study its properties."
Etymology
From quasi- + measure.
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