wavefunction collapse

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|quantum mechanics}} The phenomenon in which a wavefunction — initially in a [[superposition]] of several different possible [[eigenstate]]s — appears to reduce to a single one of those states after interaction with an observer: the reduction of the physical possibilities into a single possibility as seen by an observer.

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