Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to observe.
- adjective Archaic Deserving or worthy of note; noteworthy.
- noun A physical property, such as weight or temperature, that can be observed or measured directly, as distinguished from a quantity, such as work or entropy, that must be derived from observed quantities.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being observed or noticed, or viewed with interest or attention.
- Noticeable; worthy of observation; noteworthy; hence, remarkable.
- That may or must be observed, followed, or kept: as, the formalities observable at court.
- noun A noticeable or noteworthy fact or thing; something worth observing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable.
- adjective Worthy of being observed; important enough to be noted or celebrated.
- adjective Noteworthy; remarkable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
observed . - adjective
Deserving to be observed. - noun physics Any
physical property that can be observed andmeasured directly and notderived from other properties
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being seen or noticed
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Examples
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Because we have to admit that we can observe only a relatively small patch of the Universe, which we call our observable Universe and we are limited by an observation horizon beyond which we will never be possible to look through.
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Because we have to admit that we can observe only a relatively small patch of the Universe, which we call our observable Universe and we are limited by an observation horizon beyond which we will never be possible to look through.
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The observable is conserved if and only if the equations of motion are invariant under the transformations generated by the corresponding [Hermitian] operator
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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Nah, just an interest in observable reality … why do you dislike that so much?
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010
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Your argument “you guys really do like to create your own little worlds full of seamless facts that fit together nicely but have no basis in observable reality” does not work here.
Matthew Yglesias » Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened 2009
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The observable is conserved if and only if the equations of motion are invariant under the transformations generated by the corresponding [Hermitian] operator
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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Nah, just an interest in observable reality … why do you dislike that so much?
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010
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The observable is conserved if and only if the equations of motion are invariant under the transformations generated by the corresponding [Hermitian] operator
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Nah, just an interest in observable reality … why do you dislike that so much?
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010
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As always, however, the gritty observable is more complicated than the airy ontological.
Archive 2008-03-01 Lou Anders 2008
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