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premeasurement en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + measurement.

Meanings

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

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