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indistinguishability

noun

Etymology

From in- + distinguishability or indistinguishable + -ity.

  1. derived from distinguo
  2. derived from distinguer
  3. inherited from distingwen
  4. suffixed as distinguishability — “distinguish + ability”
  5. prefixed as indistinguishability — “in + distinguishability”

Definitions

  1. The state of being indistinguishable.

    • At times Air Force and CAS efforts blended to the point of indistinguishability.
    • 1996 Bose-Einstein Condensation: An Introduction But due to the indistinguishability of the particles in the sample, it describes a decay mechanism that occurs for all N atoms simultaneously.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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