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- noun mathematics An element of an ortholattice which is the result of applying an orthocomplementation function to a given element (of that ortholattice) (of which it is said to be its orthocomplement).
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This suggests that we can maintain a classical logical interpretation of the meet, join and orthocomplement as applied to commuting projections.
Puppet X: 1 2009
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We saw there that modal interpretations were described in more or less algebraic terms, namely, as a certain set closed under algebraic operations (the operations of meet, join, and orthocomplement on the lattice of projections on a Hilbert space, for example).
Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics Dickson, Michael 2007
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