observable
adjEtymology
From observe + -able.
Definitions
Able to be observed.
- The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe.
- 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.
Deserving to be observed
Deserving to be observed; worth regarding; remarkable.
- Both were observable figures; one a personable individual of foreign cut, the other—obviously in spite of his well-wrapped-up form—a pronounced cripple.
Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from…
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymperceivable
- synonymperceptible
- synonymnoteworthy
- synonymnotable
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at observable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at observable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at observable
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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