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quasimeasure en · NOUN

Etymology

From quasi- + measure.

Meanings

  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. 2016, Mateusz Krukowski, “Darbo-type theorem for quasimeasure of noncompactness”, in arXiv:
  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. 2013, Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler, Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for Getting Published, →ISBN:

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