quasimeasure

English

Etymology

quasi- +‎ measure

Noun

quasimeasure (plural quasimeasures)

1. (mathematics) A nonnegative increasing semiadditive set function defined on a ring of sets that is continuous above the origin and takes its values in the extended domain of real numbers.
   • 2016, Mateusz Krukowski, “Darbo-type theorem for quasimeasure of noncompactness”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Motivated by the Arzel\`a-Ascoli theorem for $C^{b}(X,E)$, where $X$ is an^[sic] Euclidean space and $E$ an arbitrary Banach space, we construct a quasimeasure for this space and study its properties.

2. An imprecise means of measuring something.
   • 2013, Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler, Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for Getting Published, →ISBN:

     Performative regimes (see Power, 1997, 2004; Strathern, 2000) in many countries now judge the worth of an academic by the number of their publications, or through some quasimeasure of quality such as download data or citations for the paper.