macromagnitude

English

Etymology

From 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.
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