macromagnitude

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ magnitude

Noun

macromagnitude (plural macromagnitudes)

1. A macroscopic magnitude
   • 1988, Richard F. Kitchener, The World View of Contemporary Physics: Does It Need a New Metaphysics?:

     The "pointer readings" corresponding to different values of a macromagnitude are associated with inequivalent Hilbert space representations of the algebra, and the appropriate Hilbert space for the measuring instrument can be represented as a direct sum of these Hilbert spaces.