Observable - What does it mean?
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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
(physics) Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
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(wikipedia observable) (en noun)- 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 .