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OBSERVABLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being seen or noticed

Example:

an observable change in behavior

Synonyms:

discernible; evident; observable

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)

Derivation:

observe (observe with care or pay close attention to)

observe (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of)

observe (watch attentively)

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 Context examples: 

Macroscopic inspection commonly used to describe physical objects that are measurable and observable by the naked eye.

(Device Image Inspection Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The asteroid is expected to be observable to amateur astronomers with small telescopes and strong binoculars.

(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)

Material stretches away from the blinding brightness of the galactic plane itself, becoming more clearly observable against the darker background of the cosmos.

(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)

And though the consequent shock and alarm was very great and much more durable—indeed I believe it was half an hour before any of us were comfortable again—yet that was too general a sensation for any thing of peculiar anxiety to be observable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Researchers have completed a detailed atlas documenting the stretches of human DNA that influence gene expression – a key way in which a person’s genome gives rise to an observable trait, like hair color or disease risk.

(NIH completes atlas of human DNA differences that influence gene expression, National Institutes of Health)

With such a confederacy against her—with a knowledge so intimate of his goodness—with a conviction of his fond attachment to herself, which at last, though long after it was observable to everybody else—burst on her—what could she do?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The fitting of data to multivariable deterministic or statistical models; extraction of the number of independent parameters that contribute to the observable value of a function; the execution of an experimental test or procedure in which multiple parameters are monitored simultaneously.

(Multiparametric Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)