coarse-graining
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The rescaling of a phenomenon into units or cells of size close to the uncertainty of measurement.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As human observers we focus almost entirely on coarse-grainings of this quasiclassical realm. However, quantum theory does not distinguish the classical realm from other decoherent sets..."
Usage
Inflected Forms
coarse-grainings (plural)
coarse graining (alternative)