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beable

Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.əbl/

The English word “beable” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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

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