observational

adj
/ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃənəl/UK/ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃənəl/US

Etymology

From observation + -al.

  1. derived from observation
  2. derived from observacion
  3. inherited from observacion
  4. suffixed as observational — “observation + al

Definitions

  1. Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.

    • The essential fact is simply that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact, are mathematical pictures.
    • An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for observational. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA