observable

CEFRB2

/əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/

adjective

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01
adjective
Able to be seen, noticed, or measured.
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adjective
Extra detail
Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties

Examples

Earth is the center of the observable universe.
It's an easily observable fact that trans athletes do not outperform their cis competitors.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

In context

Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe.
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.

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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.
2004, John Lukacs, A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century
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.
2008, David J. Teece, Technological Know-how, Organizational Capabilities, and Strategic Management
He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare systems and improving the way we care for patients.” Phenotypes are observable characteristics.
2019 January 8, Nina Avramova, “AI technology can identify genetic diseases by looking at your face, study says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022
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.
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

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From observe + -able.