Premeasurement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Premeasurement is a noun meaning measurement before some other operation.
Meaning
measurement before some other operation.
More Meanings
- (physics) 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).
Word Forms
- premeasurements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include presampling, prealignment, precalibration, preclassification, preconversion, preextraction.
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