premeasurement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
measurement before some other operation
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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.