Schrödinger's kitten

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Etymology

From Schrödinger's cat plus the notion of diminutiveness.

Noun

Schrödinger's kitten (plural Schrödinger's kittens)

  1. (informal, physics) Any of several experiments that show the paradoxical effects of quantum mechanics on a small scale, especially one that shows an atom to be in two places at the same time.

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