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Evident vs Observable - What's the difference?

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Evident is a related term of observable.


As adjectives the difference between evident and observable

is that evident is evident, obvious while observable is able to be observed.

As a verb evident

is .

As a noun observable is

(physics) any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties.

evident

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obviously true by simple observation.
    • It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=26 citation , passage=Maccario, it was evident , did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}

    Derived terms

    * self-evident

    Related terms

    * evidence * evidential

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    observable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be observed.
  • * The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe
  • Deserving to be observed.
  • * Easter is an observable holiday

    • Noun

    (wikipedia observable) (en noun)
  • (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 average one may recover something resembling a classical '''observable .
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