macromagnitude
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macromagnitude (plural macromagnitudes)
- 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.