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What does wavefunction collapse mean?

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Noun
  1. (quantum mechanics) The phenomenon in which a wave function—initially in a superposition of several different possible eigenstates—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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