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beable

noun
/ˈbiː.əbl/

Etymology

From be + -able; coined by Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell in 1984 in partial analogy to "observable".

  1. derived from *h₁ésti✻
  2. inherited from wesan
  3. derived from *h₂wes-✻
  4. inherited from *wesaną✻
  5. inherited from *wesan✻
  6. inherited from ġebēon
  7. inherited from been — “to be”
  8. inherited from *bʰuHyéti✻
  9. inherited from *beuną✻
  10. inherited from bēon
  11. inherited from been
  12. suffixed as beable — “be + able”

Definitions

  1. anything that could possibly be, in particular in any of a number of superimposed quantum…

    anything that could possibly be, in particular in any of a number of superimposed quantum states

    • In line with the approach to value definiteness taken by modal interpretations, I will also not be requiring that the beables of a quantum system be the same from one quantum state of the system to another.

  2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA