"macroscopicity" meaning in English

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          "text": "...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it, as well as to accept such macroscopicity as sufficient for classicality.",
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