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Measureable vs Observable - What's the difference?

measureable | observable |

As adjectives the difference between measureable and observable

is that measureable is while observable is able to be observed.

As a noun observable is

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

measureable

English

Adjective

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  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 25, author=David Carr, title=As TV Dwindles, It Still Leads, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Think network television is washed up, overwhelmed by targeted and measureable ads on the Web?}}

    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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