observable
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/, [əbˈzɜː.və.bɫ̩]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /əbˈzɝ.və.bəl/, [əbˈzɝ.və.bɫ̩]
Adjective
observable (comparative more observable, superlative most observable)
- Able to be observed.
- The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe.
- 2004, John Lukacs, A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century:
- In 1913, in the same year that Mother's Day became a nationally observable holiday, the American people passed another milestone: for the first time in American history more than one person in one thousand was divorced.
- 2008, David J. Teece, Technological Know-how, Organizational Capabilities, and Strategic Management:
- Although intellectual property rights, such as patents, are highly observable, they are mostly limited to product technologies. Process technologies, or the routines endemic in the firm's production, are not readily observable, and thus cannot be easily imitated.
- Deserving to be observed; worth regarding; remarkable.
Synonyms
- (able to be observed): noticeable, perceivable; see also Thesaurus:perceptible
- (deserving to be observed): eminent, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable
Derived terms
Translations
able to be observed
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deserving to be observed
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Noun
observable (plural observables)
- (physics) Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
- Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
- In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to Hermitian operators. Also, they act a lot like random variables. Taking their expected value one may recover something resembling a classical observable.
Translations
any physical property
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
observable (plural observables)
- observable
- Antonym: inobservable
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “observable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin observābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
observable m or f (masculine and feminine plural observables)
- observable
- Antonym: inobservable
Related terms
Further reading
- “observable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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