decoherence
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First attested 1902 (OED), in the context of electrical engineering, in the sense of the resetting of a coherer. Decoherence is the verbal noun, standing besides decohesion, derived from decohere (also attested from 1902), the de- negative of cohere (17th century).
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Wikipedia decoherence (uncountable)
- (engineering) the normal condition of sensitiveness in a coherer (disused)
- (physics) The process by which a quantum system interacts with its environment in such a way that no interference between states of the system can be observed.
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in physics
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