indeterminacy
/ˌɪndɪˈtɜːrmɪnəsi/
noun
- The state or quality of being uncertain, not fixed, or not clearly defined.
- The indeterminacy of the weather forecast made planning the picnic difficult.
- The indeterminacy of the election results kept everyone on edge for days.
- Philosophers often debate the indeterminacy of meaning in language.
- In physics, the principle that certain pairs of physical properties cannot both be known precisely at the same time (also called the uncertainty principle).
- Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle revolutionized quantum mechanics.
- Students in the advanced physics class studied the indeterminacy of subatomic particles.
- The indeterminacy of a particle's position and momentum is a fundamental concept in physics.
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