premeasurement
English edit
Etymology edit
pre- + measurement
Noun edit
premeasurement (plural premeasurements)
- measurement before some other operation
- (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.
- 2015, Shan Gao, Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality, →ISBN, page 42:
- 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).